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Reviewed by John Craig Hammond | Book Review | The Indiana Magazine of History, 104.2 | The History Cooperative
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REVIEWS

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

By H. Robert Baker
(Athens: Ohio University Press, 2006. Pp. xiv, 259. Illustrations, notes, selected bibliography, index. $38.95.)

Ostensibly a book on the capture and rescue of a fugitive slave in Wiscon-sin, The Rescue of Joshua Glover does much more than tell an interesting story. H. Robert Baker skillfully delineates the larger political, racial, and constitutional conflicts that made slavery a pressing political issue for northern whites in the 1850s. Above all else, the book focuses on antebel-lum Americans' resort to popular constitutionalism: "the notion that, in the last instance, the final arbiter of the Constitution was the people themselves" (p. xii). . . .
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