The Joshua Glover Case Thesis The Wisconsin Electronic Reader website says “Joshua Glover was known as runaway slave, who sought asylum in Racine back during year of 1854”.¹ Joshua has found a job to support his life style in Wisconsin. Sadly, a representative of his former owner had tracked him down, beat him and had him thrown straight to jail. Even though he was living as a free man in Wisconsin under the Fugitive Act of 1850 his former master has the legal right to try to pursue seek him out and bring him back.¹ In addition, if anybody somehow assisted Glover they might be fined with fees and/or given jail time. Sherman Booth ignoring that rule when he was that a colored man was captured, beaten down and thrown into jail and soon to…show more content… The first act was put into place during the year of 1793². It was basically similar to the 1850 version except for the fact that’s it didn’t have as many provisions to specify of what was to be expected of all parties.² This first rule didn’t go as smoothly because they didn’t have the strength to persuade anyone to follow the Slave Act of 1793. Typically Northerners did not follow this act of 1793 because they did not believe in slavery. They simply ignored it individually and governmentally. This caused the drafters of the document to revise the act in year 1850. Essentially, they would provide the rule with more teeth to encourage individuals and other states to comply with the new act or face the penalties which they can’t…show more content… The very thought about one of the states could enact a law which caused you or your state to act a certain way whether you agreed to it or not wasn’t something that Wisconsin was willing to accept. This Act was just only adding more fuel to the fire. It has caused states like Wisconsin and Michigan to pass their own laws for their efforts to not abide by the Slave Act Laws. ² Also, abolitionists has increased their efforts in Underground Railroad system to gain more former slaves to freedom outside the territory of the U.S. Lastly, there were episodes of physical altercations as Northerners attempted to free use to be individuals that went to jail under these Slave Acts. All of these actions caused a law that was supposed to be more enforceable than the previous slave law to become totally unenforceable. The paper was not worth it and was written down by 1860’s somewhere in Northern States.² Sadly, it stayed on the books well into the beginning of the Civil War between the North and the South. ² It was finally removed from legislation during the year after the Civil War Ended in 1865. ² So, the impact of the Glover case was a demonstration that attempts to keep slavery with rules, regulations and finally a war that resulted in South’s being fast forward to their downfall of slavery. It taught us that law was only benefit for a specific region and yet would not be
