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Author:

Baker, H. Robert.

Title:

The rescue of Joshua Glover : a fugitive slave, the constitution, and the coming of the civil war / H. Robert Baker.

Publisher:

Ohio University Press,

Copyright Date:

c2006

Description:

xiv, 260 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.

Subject:

Fugitive slaves--History--United States--History--19th century.
Fugitive slaves--History--Wisconsin--History--19th century.
United States.--Fugitive slave law (1850)
Booth, Sherman M.--Trials, litigation, etc.
Glover, Joshua.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (p. 237-251) and index.

Contents:

Rescuing Joshua Glover -- The Fugitive Slave Act -- The disappearance of Joshua Glover -- Citizenship and the duty to resist -- The Wisconsin Supreme Court and the Fugitive Slave Act -- The Constitution before the people -- Denouement -- The ends of history.

Series:

Ohio University Press series on law, society, and politics in the midwest

ISBN:

9780821416907 (cloth : alk. paper)
0821416901 (cloth : alk. paper)

LCCN:

2006022720

Locations:

USUX851 -- Iowa State University - Parks Library (Ames)

PLAX964 -- Luther College - Preus Library (Decorah)

N3AX771 -- Drake Law School Library (Des Moines)

OIAX792 -- Grinnell College (Grinnell)

OVUX522 -- University of Iowa Libraries (Iowa City)

N5UX522 -- University of Iowa Law Library (Iowa City)