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Up next, a story about an event in American history with profound implications. and a story that's been forgotten over time. Here to tell the story of the rescue of Joshua Glover. A fugitive slave. It's Dr.
Robert Baker. And Michael Jarr, who is the creator of the documentary Liberty at Stake. The Joshua Glover Story. Here's Michael to start us off at the moment that would change Joshua Glover's life. Forever.
On the night of March 10th, 1854, he was playing cards with a couple of friends at his home. What he didn't know His former slave owner never stopped looking, and the slave catchers. Knock on the door. Glover is suspicious. He has heard that there are slave catchers abroad.
There had been some people snooping around the day before, so he says, Don't answer the door. But yeah, his friend unlatched it. and the posse swept in. I came across the story of Joshua Glover. In the Milwaukee County Historical Archives, I was working on industrial tort law.
I believe I first came across this story maybe 10 years ago. There is a plaque in downtown Milwaukee, just on the corner of a park, and the plaque commemorates what took place in that square in 1854. And there's just enough there to kind of whet your appetite. The short story of it was that he was jailed in Milwaukee as a fugitive slave and brought to the courthouse, which had been in that square back at that time. And his reputed slave owner, a man by the name of Bename Garland, Had invoked the Fugitive Slave Law of 1850 to extradite him from Wisconsin to Missouri.
And rather than allow this to happen, a crowd of 5,000 people broke Joshua Glover out of jail and then arranged for him to flee to Canada, where he would live the rest of his days in freedom. And the events of March of 1854 were a catalyst for much bigger events. The formation of the Republican Party, which led to obviously the election of Abraham Lincoln, which contributed to the southern states seceding and civil war and eventually emancipation.
So I realized, oh my gosh, there's a domino effect here. And it wasn't, you know, the sole event, obviously, but one of many that were taking place and were really ripping the fabric of the nation apart. The 1850s were a very turbulent time in America. The Kansas-Nebraska Act passed. People could vote to decide whether they wanted to be a free state.
Or a slave state. And this struck everybody as another capitulation to slaveholders. You can't vote to enslave your neighbor. All across, especially the Midwestern states. These Nebraska societies pop up.
They're almost like single-issue political clubs. The other horrific event during that same period with Kansas is what happens in the Senate. Pressman Brooks takes a cane to Charles Sumner, I mean, nearly kills him on the floor of the United States Senate, which, by the way, followed a long train, long history of violence in the halls of Congress. There were outright brawls in the House of Representatives. Prior to that, as part of the bigger package of bills adopted in 1850, part of that was the Fugitive Slave Act, which put stronger teeth.
Into the ability of slave owners to reclaim their slaves. You have to understand the Fugitive Slave Act had been in force in the United States since 1793.
So, this is something that comes up very, very early in American history as a fundamental problem. What are we going to do now that we have free states and slave states who share common borders? And the Constitution, of course, has in Article IV a fugitive slave clause. It's one of the most poorly written parts of the Constitution. And people start exploiting the weaknesses.
A lot of states were putting up roadblocks that made it much more difficult for slave owners to reclaim their escaped slaves. That would give rights to anyone who was accused of being a fugitive slave. You see more and more efforts by the enslaved to escape bondage. And you see more and more willingness of people in northern cities to assist. And so there's a growing outcry amongst the states of the South that the Constitution is not being respected.
And they demand a congressional settlement on this. And so Congress in 1850 passes a new Fugitive Slave Act. And the new Fugitive Slave Act has several features in it that make it fairly remarkable, and it's really a novelty in American law. Yeah. The first is that It appoints new federal officers to oversee fugitive slave renditions.
The second prong is that they empower. The federal marshals to assist in returning fugitive slaves by giving them tremendous authority. One of the authorities that they give them. is the power of posse comitatus. It's the ability to say during a crisis, I'm calling on all of you citizens to help me enforce the law.
So now with the power of posse comitatus, a federal marshal who is seizing a fugitive slave can essentially conscript anybody around him. Any citizen to assist him in returning this fugitive slave to. A slaveholder. And that is what really rankles people in the North. They felt turned them into slave catchers.
Remember, in the North, not everybody was abolitionist, and there were plenty of anti-slavery people who were fine with slavery so long as it stayed in the South. But they had deep problems with allowing the slave states to extend their slavery principles into free territories and into the free states.
Now they're going to become a part of this entire regime. How can we be a free state if we are engaged in returning people to bondage? It suspends habeas corpus. It specifically denies fugitives a trial by jury. It doubles the civil and criminal penalties.
That are associated with helping fugitives escape. It was enormously risky. You could be sentenced to prison. You could suffer a fine that was crippling. Catastrophic back in that time.
We're talking about something that would amount to your livelihood. The civil prosecutions that the Fugitive Slave Act allowed would sometimes go upwards of 10,000. If you were a printer, for instance, that was all of your equipment. If you were a laborer, it would be essentially enough to put you into debt prison for the rest of your life. And they make federal marshals actually liable for the value of the claimed fugitive should a rescue take place.
So they really tried to put a lot more strength in the ability of slave owners to come up to the North, track down their fugitive slaves, arrest them, have no due process, and then return them back to a lifetime of bondage.
So that was, in the southern perspective, that was a great development. But for people in the North, like people in Wisconsin, that was horrific. And uh this fed complaints. In the northern states, that the fugitive slave law was not just a novelty, but patently unconstitutional. And it was really difficult at the time politically.
The Democrats were kind of seen as the slave party. The Whigs were becoming more and more ineffectual. And then there were a couple of other parties, and they had abolitionist leanings, but they were not strong parties. And this is all in advance of the midterm elections that are going to occur in November of 1854, at a pivotal point in American history.
So, Joshua Glover's arrest is really kind of a fulcrum point. It focuses national attention again on just how much the slaveholders have succeeded in bending the Republic to their will. And you've been listening to Dr. Robert Baker. And Michael Jarr.
And Jarr is the creator of the documentary Liberty at Stake, the Joshua. Glover story that can be viewed at www.lastfilm.com. Go to their website and help them tell the inspiring story of Joshua Glover to a national audience. And What we learn here is, well, from a quote. How can we be a free state if we are returning people?
people. back to bondage. and that's about as close as it gets to the full summary. of the problems between North and South. Specifically, as it relates to the Fugitive Slave Act.
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And we continue with our American stories and with the story of the rescue of fugitive slave Joshua Glover. Let's get back into the story here again. is Michael Jarr. January 1st, New Year's Day, 1850, Joshua Glover was part of a slave auction on the courthouse steps in St. Louis.
What a terrible way to start the new year. A man named Benami Garland purchased him, and Benami Garland had a farm just outside of St. Louis. Joshua Glover worked as a slave there for two years before he decided That he was going to pursue his own freedom and begin to make his way 400 miles, just a little under 400 miles, to the abolitionist stronghold of Racine, Wisconsin. There was plenty of work to be found.
It was a burgeoning port city. It was actually in competition with Milwaukee. And for two years, he actually was able to really live out his dream of freedom. He must have been a fairly accomplished wood carver. He would bring his products into the city and people and sell them, and apparently was fairly successful at that.
So, an entrepreneurial and hardworking guy. And that means that he had come to the attention of enough people that When his description is published by Garland, it eventually gets back to these networks of pro-slavery people.
So in addition to having abolitionist networks in the north, there were also networks of pro-slavery people. They watched for advertisements and helped to track down gidgeted.
Some of these people were committed unionists. They believed that this was their constitutional duty. And others were probably more cynical in just realizing there was a business opportunity there and would put themselves into the employ of slaveholders. On the night of March 10th, 1854, he was playing cards with a couple of friends in his home. But a man inside the cabin who has been paid off, turned coat, unlatches the door, and in rush the Marshal and his arresting party.
He is eventually manacled, put into a wagon, and they then prepare to take him to jail. But instead of going to Racine, they turn north and head to Milwaukee. And then what they do is they've actually brought two wagons and they send one of the wagons back to Racine. And it's fairly obvious at this point that they are expecting to be met in Racine. And in fact, this happens.
Abolitionists have already been alerted by the time the wagon arrives in Racine, and this is in the dead of night. One of the friends who had been playing cards with Glover that evening actually escaped out a window, and he went and began to tell the abolitionist community that Joshua had been arrested. And then they wire, they wire Sherman Booth. Sherman Booth was an abolitionist newspaper editor in Milwaukee, and they tipped him off to say, there is a fugitive slave who's been arrested here in Racine. He's been taken to the jail.
Can you confirm this?
So, Sherman Booth goes over to the jailhouse and they really downplay it. They basically kind of use weasel words to basically say that: yeah, no one's been abducted. There's nothing going on here of any interest. Sherman Booth began to kind of doubt that he had gotten good information, but he ran into an attorney who had just filed a writ of habeas corpus on behalf of Joshua Blover.
So basically he had asked for him to be released.
So Schumann Booth goes back to his printing press and he begins to run off a number of hand bills calling people out to oppose the efforts of the slave catchers to return. lover to slavery. Booth also gets on his horse and rides through the streets, Paul Revere style. And he yells, Come to the courthouse square. A man's liberty is at stake.
Free men to the rescue. This is what draws all of these people into the courthouse square. On a miserable, cold March day, 5,000 people dropped whatever they were doing and turned up at the courthouse on behalf of a man that most of them had never met to demand that Joshua Glover be given due process and ultimately be released. The population of Milwaukee at the time was about 20,000 people.
So to think about that kind of a crowd, that kind of a turnout, was really remarkable.
Now, keep in mind, this was a city that had suffered an election riot. There were not infrequent riots in Milwaukee that occurred when you had gatherings just like this. This was a polyglot city. It had a lot of Irish immigrants, it had a lot of German immigrants. And to put all of these people into the same space naturally invokes some anxiety from everybody.
And then what happens is Once they all gather in the courthouse square, the crowd elects a president. And the president then appoints a committee, and the committee is made up of people from every ward. And then they sit down and start drafting resolutions that they present to the crowd. And the crowd then discusses the resolutions and then votes on them. In other words, this was not your typical mob scene.
This was not your typical riot with pitchforks and torches. They actually behave very much the way any out-of-doors Democratic Assembly would. And they make a constitutional argument that, as a resident of the state of Wisconsin, nobody can remove him from Wisconsin. except by trial by jury. And they say that he has a right by the Constitution to the writ of Aebus Corpus, and they set themselves on those.
They are going to make sure that his constitutional rights are respected. They then take these resolutions to the jailer and to the federal judge. Who is overseeing the case? And at the same time, they are working legal angles. And they did this for several hours.
This takes hours. I mean, we're talking about something that isn't a momentary thing. Literally, people describe being at the meeting all day, going home for dinner, and then coming back after dinner was over. But They realized that Glover was not going to be released. It's only when.
The federal judge says that they will not honor the writ of habeas corpus. that the crowd springs into action. They grabbed a wooden beam and they said this will make for a fine key and they used that key to batter down the courthouse door. They are directed by the jailer as to where Glover is because they start off in the wrong direction and he doesn't want them to destroy his jail. They break only the lock on his door, which allows them to take him out and they do no other damage to the jail.
At that point, the crowd goes wild, like it was the return of a war hero or something like that. People were cheering and clapping and shaking Glover's hand and whisked him to the south side of Milwaukee. Ultimately, he would be taken to a ferry and ferried to Canada. That is how the rescue happens. Uh People in the South were Outraged.
Immediately, the legal ramifications for the abolitionists are clear. Sherman Booth was arrested. They were jailed. They were also sued by Joshua Glover's former owner, Benamie Garland. Successfully sued because he claimed that they had been involved in stealing his property.
Sherman Booth lost his newspaper business, his printing presses, and so on in order to pay off what was owed. And in the case of Sherman Booth, who didn't actually take part in the rescue, he had left the meeting at that point, but he was the most vocal organizer. And there had been similar rescues in other cities, but the Joshua Glover event was really sort of a catalyst for bigger developments in the coming days. Nine days after his rescue, a group of abolitionists met in a little white schoolhouse in Ripon, Wisconsin, and said, we need a new anti-slavery political party in this country. They came out of that schoolhouse calling themselves Republicans.
I think the story of Joshua Glover is important for, I mean, any number of reasons, but to me, the most important thing is that it is a lesson in civic activity. 5,000 people, black and white, come together. On behalf of one man, determined To make sure that the American ideals that they believe in, the founding ideals of the right to life, liberty, and pursuit of happiness, were going to be extended to Joshua Glover. It's hard for us to kind of imagine on any given day just dropping what you're doing to go out and spend some time in the cold acting on behalf of somebody else who maybe is facing injustice. But then to go that next step and actually Break the law knowing that you could be arrested, you could be fined, you could face all sorts of penalties as a result of your actions, and still being willing to do that.
Is just an inspiring act. Every person involved was forced to repeatedly articulate what it was they were doing and why. They had to articulate their vision for what the Constitution was, and they had to persuade all of the people around them that they were right. And this is democracy, particularly a constitutional democracy, at its absolute finest. The story of Joshua Glover, in a way, doesn't end with happiness because we get to the Civil War.
but the actions of the people themselves. Articulated a great vision for the United States Constitution as a document of liberty and a document of equality. That they were able to enshrine. They emerge in things like the 14th Amendment, the 13th Amendment. things that still animate our constitutional republic to this day.
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