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The Rescue of Joshua Glover: A Fugitive Slave, the Constitution, and the Coming of the Civil War

The Rescue of Joshua Glover: A Fugitive Slave, the Constitution, and the Coming of the Civil War

Baker, H. Robert

Paperback

Series: Law Society & Politics in the Midwest

19th Century United States HistoryGeneral Racism & Ethnic StudiesRegional: Midwest

ISBN10: 0821418130
ISBN13: 9780821418130
Publisher: Ohio University Press
Published: Jan 1 2008
Pages: 272
Weight: 0.87
Height: 0.61 Width: 6.29 Depth: 9.00
Language: English

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.

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