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Escape of Joshua Glover

M2007.041.117
c. 1950

In 1854 a run away slave from Missouri named Joshua Glover arrived in Racine, WI. Glover’s slave master found out where he was, came to Wisconsin, and using the Federal Fugitive Slave Law had Glover arrested and taken to the Milwaukee County Jailhouse. Abolitionists from all around southeastern Wisconsin surrounded the jail, broke down its doors, freeing Glover. He eventually made it safely to Canada. This event shows how confusing this time of slavery and abolition, States rights vs. Federal Law must have been. Although the escape of Joshua Glover was a local victory, in just a few short years the entire country would be battling in a Civil War, deciding what right’s States, as well as people, would have in the future of America.