Sherman Booth
Sherman Booth (1812-1904) was an abolitionist editor and leader in Wisconsin. Booth moved to Wisconsin from New York just days before Wisconsin was issued with statehood. He played an important part in the antislavery movement in Wisconsin.
In 1854, he led a raid that freed a fugitive, by the name of Joshua Glover, a runaway slave from Missouri, from custody. Booth was arrested for violating the Fugitive Slave Act. He then appealed for a writ of habeas corpus from the Wisconsin Supreme Court. The court freed him and then declared that the 1850 Fugitive Slave Law was unconstituional. The U.S. Supreme Court overruled the Wisconsin court's decision. They then asserted the supremacy of federal law and Booth was ordered to go back to prison.
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