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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... unconstitutional . Nor did this resistance end in the courts . Antislavery Republicans came to power in Wisconsin and arrayed the powers of the legislature and the executive against the Fugitive Slave Act . This opposition became more ...
... unconstitutional “inasmuch as it denied the Writ of Habeas Corpus and the right of trial by jury, which were sa- credly guarantied to us by the Constitution of the United States, and of this State.”57 No more than a summary of his ...
... unconstitutional encroachments on their liberty, how did this intersect with the duty of citizens to obey the law? The federal gov- ernment prosecuted several participants in the rescue and returned indict- ments on John Ryecraft and ...
... unconstitutional. Their actions made the act virtually unenforceable—in practice, a nullity. But was that law unconstitutional? The Constitution, after all, mandated the return of fugitive slaves across state lines. There had been an ...
... unconstitutionality . The Fugitive Slave Act was firmly rooted in several sources of law , but the compromises that created it did not tie these sources together in a neat way . There was the common - law right of recaption , the well ...
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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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