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Article: The Rescue of Joshua Glover: A Fugitive Slave Law, the Constitution, and the Coming of the Civil War.(Book review)
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- Journal of the Early Republic
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- March 22, 2008
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The Rescue of Joshua Glover: A Fugitive Slave Law, the Constitution, and the Coming of the Civil War. By H. Robert Baker. (Athens, OH: Ohio University Press, 2006. Pp. xiv, 260. Illustrations. Cloth, $38.95.)
The fight to liberate African Americans is not a twentieth-century phenomenon, as Robert Baker makes clear in this gripping story about Joshua Glover. The scene is Racine, Wisconsin; the year 1854--in a decade when abolitionist lawyer Salmon Portland Chase characterized slavery as "the great question of the day." Joshua Glover was among the more than four million African Americans enslaved in the South, and he joined an unknown number of men, women, and ...