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By Paul F, May 18, 2010
Rescue of Joshua Glover Marker
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1 ► Wisconsin, Milwaukee County, Milwaukee, East Town — 463 — Rescue of Joshua Glover —  |
| Joshua Glover was a runaway slave who sought freedom in Racine in 1852. In 1854, his Missouri owner used the Fugitive Slave Act to apprehend him. This 1850 law permitted slave catchers to cross state lines to captured escaped slaves. Glover was . . . — — Map (db m33013) HM | |||
| 2 ► Wisconsin, Racine County, Racine — Joshua Glover Commemorative Marker — |
| Haymarket Square. On March 10, 1854, the largest crowd that had ever assembled here met to protest the capture of Joshua Glover, a fugitive slave who had lived and worked in Racine for two years. A committee of 100 then took a boat to . . . — — Map (db m69183) HM | |||