Finding freedom

Ruby West Jackson, Walter T. McDonald

"On March 11, 1854, thousands of Wisconsin abolitionists gathered outside the Milwaukee Courthouse, outraged by the beating, capture, and jailing of runaway slave Joshua Glover. In his forties at the time, Glover had been living and working in nearby Racine since his escape from bondage two years earlier. With each hour, the crowd swelled. Eventually, a flashpoint: the abolitionists broke down the jail's door, recaptured Glover, and delivered him to freedom on the Underground Railroad. The catalytic "Glover incident" would capture national attention, pitting the proud state of Wisconsin against the Supreme Court, adding fuel to the pre-Civil War fire, and altering the lives of those abolitionists involved.". "And yet the life of this story's central figure, Joshua Glover himself, has never before been fully chronicled - until now. Finding Freedom is the first narrative record of...

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