Bøger af H. Robert Baker

H. Robert Baker has written the first and only book-length treatment of the landmark Prigg v. Pennsylvania case that became a pivot point for antebellum politics and law. Baker's eye-opening account raises crucial questions about the place of slavery in the Constitution and the role of the courts in protecting it in antebellum America.

On March 11, 1854, the people of Wisconsin prevented agents of the federal government from carrying away the fugitive slave, Joshua Glover. Assembling in mass outside the Milwaukee courthouse, they demanded that the federal officers respect his civil liberties as they would those of any other citizen of the state.