Chris Taylor: “The Wisconsin Supreme Court has played a really important…”

“Take a second, if you could, Judge Taylor, to help people appreciate that local connection, state connection to this whole issue about African Americans in the state of Wisconsin. Sure. Well, The Wisconsin Supreme Court has played a really important role in treating people fairly equally with due process, and refused to enforce the Fugitive Slave Act. And this went back to the 1850s, prior to the Civil War. A man named Booth was charged because he had helped a enslaved person evade Joshua Glover.” (11:22–11:37)

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