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

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The Rescue of Joshua Glover You are reading copyrighted material published by Ohio University Press/Swallow Press. Unauthorized posting, copying, or distributing of this work except as permitted under U.S. copyright law is illegal and injures the author and publisher. Ohio University Press Series on Law, Society, and Politics in the Midwest series editor: paul finkelman The History of Ohio Law, edited by Michael Les Benedict and John F. Winkler Frontiers of Freedom: Cincinnati’s Black Community, ‒, by Nikki M. Taylor A Place of Recourse: A History of the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of Ohio, ‒, by Roberta Sue Alexander The Black Laws: Race and the Legal Process in Early Ohio, by Stephen Middleton The History of Indiana Law, edited by David J. Bodenhamer and Randall T. Shepard The History of Michigan Law, edited by Paul Finkelman and Martin J. Hershock The Fairer Death: Executing Women in Ohio, by Victor L. Streib The Rescue of Joshua Glover: A Fugitive Slave, the Constitution, and the Coming of the Civil War, by H. Robert Baker You are reading copyrighted material published by Ohio University Press/Swallow Press. Unauthorized posting, copying, or distributing of this work except as permitted under U.S. copyright law is illegal and injures the author and publisher. h. robert baker The Rescue of Joshua Glover a fugitive slave, the constitution, and the coming of the civil war Ohio University Press Athens You are reading copyrighted material published by Ohio University Press/Swallow Press. Unauthorized posting, copying, or distributing of this work except as permitted under U.S. copyright law is illegal and injures the author and publisher. Ohio University Press, Athens, Ohio  www.ohio.edu/oupress©  by Ohio University Press Printed in the United States of America All rights reserved Ohio University Press books are printed on acid-free paper ƒ ™              Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data Baker, H. Robert. The rescue of Joshua Glover : a fugitive slave, the constitution, and the coming of the civil war / H. Robert Baker. p. cm. — (Ohio University Press series on law, society, and politics in the midwest) Includes bibliographical references and index. ISBN-13: 978-0-8214-1690-7 (cloth : alk. paper) ISBN-10: 0-8214-1690-1 (cloth : alk. paper) 1. Fugitive slaves—Legal status, laws, etc.—United States.—History—19th century. 2. Fugitive slaves—Legal status, laws, etc.—Wisconsin—History—19th century. 3. United States. Fugitive slave law (1850) 4. Booth, Sherman M.—Trials, litigation, etc. 5. Glover, Joshua. I. Title. KF4545.S5.B35 2007 342.7308'7—dc22 2006022720 You are reading copyrighted material published by Ohio University Press/Swallow Press. Unauthorized posting, copying, or distributing of this work except as permitted under U.S. copyright law is illegal and injures the author and publisher. For Jan, who lifts those heavy clouds . . . you dig? You are reading copyrighted material published by Ohio University Press/Swallow Press. Unauthorized posting, copying, or distributing of this work except as permitted under U.S. copyright law is illegal and injures the author and publisher. You are reading copyrighted material published by Ohio University Press/Swallow Press. Unauthorized posting, copying, or distributing of this work except as permitted under U.S. copyright law is illegal and injures the author and publisher. ...