Finding Freedom : The Untold Story of Joshua Glover, Freedom Seeker.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Jackson, Ruby West.

Contributor:

McDonald, Walter T.

Language:

English

Physical Description:

1 online resource (177 pages)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Madison : Wisconsin Historical Society, 2022.

Summary:

First published in 2007, the groundbreaking book Finding Freedom provided the first narrative account of the life of Joshua Glover, the freedom seeker who was famously broken out of jail by thousands of Wisconsin abolitionists in 1854. This paperback edition reframes Glover's story with a new foreword from historian Christy Clark-Pujara. Employing original research, authors Ruby West Jackson and Walter T. McDonald chronicle Glover's days as an enslaved person in St. Louis, his violent capture and escape in Milwaukee, his journey on the Underground Railroad, and his thirty-three years of freedom in rural Canada. While the catalytic "Glover incident" captured national attention--pitting the state of Wisconsin against the Supreme Court and adding fuel to the pre-Civil War fire--the primary focus is on the ordinary citizens, both Black and white, with whom Joshua Glover interacted. A bittersweet story of bravery and compassion, Finding Freedom provides the first full picture of the man for whom so many fought and around whom so much history was made.

Contents:

Contents

Note on the Second Edition

Foreword by Christy Clark-Pujara

1. A Slave in St. Louis

2. The “Peculiar Institution”

3. Rumblings in Wisconsin

4. Flight to Freedom

5. Life in Racine

6. A Violent Capture and Thrilling Escape

7. Glover Goes by Rail

8. Trials and Tribulations

9. The Promised Land

10. Sweet and Bitter: Life on the Farm

11. A “Stabbing Affray”

12. The End of the Line

13. Aftermath

Authors’ Note on the First Edition: The Search for Joshua Glover

Notes

Index

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Print version: Jackson, Ruby West Finding Freedom

ISBN:

9780870209956

0870209957

OCLC:

1342498163