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‘Joshua Glover’s Freedom’

The Kansas-Nebraska Act passes, which gave the question of whether slavery would be permitted to the people in their territory. (Public domain via Wikimedia)

On episode 86 of The Charles C. W. Cooke Podcast, I talked to Michael Jahr about his upcoming documentary movie, Liberty at Stake, which is about the escape from slavery of Joshua Glover in 1854, as well the abolitionist activism of the people of Wisconsin and the subsequent founding of the Republican Party. After that, I talked to Dan McLaughlin about the 1850 Fugitive Slave Act, and the context in which it was passed.

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