The Rescue of Joshua Glover: A Fugitive Slave, the Constitution, and the Coming of the Civil WarOhio University Press, 2006 M12 31 - 272 páginas On March 11, 1854, the people of Wisconsin prevented agents of the federal government from carrying away the fugitive slave, Joshua Glover. Assembling in mass outside the Milwaukee courthouse, they demanded that the federal officers respect his civil liberties as they would those of any other citizen of the state. When the officers refused, the crowd took matters into its own hands and rescued Joshua Glover. The federal government brought his rescuers to trial, but the Wisconsin Supreme Court intervened and took the bold step of ruling the Fugitive Slave Act unconstitutional. The Rescue of Joshua Glover delves into the courtroom trials, political battles, and cultural equivocation precipitated by Joshua Glover’s brief, but enormously important, appearance in Wisconsin on the eve of the Civil War. H. Robert Baker articulates the many ways in which this case evoked powerful emotions in antebellum America, just as the stage adaptation of Uncle Tom’s Cabin was touring the country and stirring antislavery sentiments. Terribly conflicted about race, Americans struggled mightily with a revolutionary heritage that sanctified liberty but also brooked compromise with slavery. Nevertheless, as The Rescue of Joshua Glover demonstrates, they maintained the principle that the people themselves were the last defenders of constitutional liberty, even as Glover’s rescue raised troubling questions about citizenship and the place of free blacks in America. |
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... state courts and con- sent to their being disarmed of the writ of Habeas Corpus, and their liberties are gone.—Not only the liberty of the citizen, but the sovereignty of the state require a firm resistance to this monstrous assumption ...
... state lines. There had been an act regarding the pro- cedure for their return on the U.S. statute books since 1793, and proposals to amend it had arisen on many occasions before 1850. The law had come before both state and federal ...
... state and federal officers to pro- vide for the reclaiming of fugitive slaves and left to the states the matter of protecting free black citizens . The business of the courts was not to pass judgment on the substance of the settlement ...
... state but should “ be delivered up on claim of the party to whom such service or labour may be due . " With no further opposition , this para- graph became a permanent part of Article IV , Section 2 , of the Constitu- tion upon ...
... state's governor . Once agents of that state presented it to the officers of another state , it became “ the duty of the executive au- thority " of the latter state's officers to arrest the fugitive and turn him over or to allow the ...
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3 The Disappearance of Joshua Glover | 58 |
4 Citizenship and the Duty to Resist | 80 |
5 The Wisconsin Supreme Court and the Fugitive Slave Act | 112 |
6 The Constitution before the People | 135 |
7 Denouement | 162 |
The Ends of History | 178 |
Notes | 189 |
Selected Bibliography | 237 |
index | 253 |
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