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Book Review


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. xiv, 260 pp. $38.95, ISBN 978-0-8214-1690-7.)
H. Robert Baker provides an exemplary case study of the events leading up to the undeservedly obscure Supreme Court decision in Ableman v. Booth (1859). The case began with the liberation of Joshua Glover, a fugitive slave, in Wisconsin. Baker recounts the events surrounding Glover's capture and freeing, but the book's real contribution comes in its account of what happened after Glover left the scene, relocating to Canada. . . .
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