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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... statute that purported to quash these rights , they firmly stated that the people themselves would enforce those rights . It was an unsettling doc- trine that they invoked , one traceable to revolutionary origins . The rescue also ...
... 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 courts, and, more than once, lawyers had argued that its provisions were unconstitutional and ...
... statute . But they also pointed to congres- sional action and to the country's long acquiescence as decisive evidence of the act's constitutionality . In truth , the courts had not had much to say about the matter . Most opinions ...
... statute and article VI of the Northwest Ordinance of 1787 , which banned slavery in that territory . In at least one ... statutes meant to abolish or restrict the spread of the peculiar institution smoothed over potential conflicts and ...
... statute , they had to register their slaves with the state or surrender their claims to them . Although many former Virginians ( now Pennsylvanians ) complied , a few slipped through the cracks . One slave on the northern side of 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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