Article: The rescue of Joshua Glover; a fugitive slave, the Constitution, and the coming of the Civil War.(Brief article)(Book review)

Article: The Rescue of Joshua Glover: A Fugitive Slave Law, ...
Journal of the Early Republic;  March 22, 2008 ;     700+ words ... ... Joshua Glover: A Fugitive Slave Law, the Constitution ... the Coming of the Civil War. By H. Robert Baker ... captured him there as a fugitive slave. Garland had prepared ... toughs to carry out the Fugitive Slave Act, which authorized ...

Article: Fugitive Slave Acts (1793, 1850)
Major Acts of Congress;      700+ words ...Fugitive Slave Acts (1793, 1850) Arthur G. LeFrancois ... the South over slavery could threaten a civil war between the two sides. The conflict ... area decades before the Civil War. THE FUGITIVE SLAVE ACT OF 1793 The Fugitive Slave Act of ...

Article: Portrait of an era; Legal issues of turbulent 1850s overshadow ...
The Milwaukee Journal Sentinel;  December 17, 2006 ;     700+ words ... ... of Joshua Glover: A Fugitive Slave, the Constitution, and the Coming of the Civil War. By H. Robert Baker ... tale of freedom: a fugitive slave plucked from a safe ... battlefield in this pre-Civil War struggle over states ...

Article: More legal history, less human saga; Turbulent 1850s overshadow ...
Albany Times Union (Albany, NY);  January 7, 2007 ;     700+ words ... ... tale of freedom: a fugitive slave plucked from a safe ... battlefield in this pre-Civil War struggle over states ... of Joshua Glover: A Fugitive Slave, the Constitution, and the Coming of the Civil War" (Ohio University ...

Article: Fugitive Slave Act of 1850
Gale Encyclopedia of U.S. Economic History;      700+ words ...FUGITIVE SLAVE ACT OF 1850 The roots of the American Civil War (1861 – 1865) were complex ... Congress subsequently enacted the Fugitive Slave Act of 1793 to specify procedures to ...

Encyclopedia entry: Fugitive Slave Act
The Oxford Companion to United States History;      603 words ... ... proceeding, before fugitive slave tribunals established ... Congress repealed the Fugitive Slave Act in 1864. See also ... Era ; Antislavery ; Civil War: Causes ; Slavery ... Enforcement of the Fugitive Slave Law, 1850– ...

Article: SHADRACH MINKINS: From Fugitive Slave to Citizen, ...
Knight Ridder/Tribune News Service;  May 21, 1997 ;     700+ words ... ... Shadrach Minkins: From Fugitive Slave to Citizen,'' a fascinating ... real by the passage of the Fugitive Slave Law, part of the Compromise ... owners. Minkins was the first fugitive slave to be seized in New England ... there in 1862. After the Civil War, Minkins refused to ...