Booth later declared in court, quote, I rejoice that the first attempt to convert our jail into a slave pen and our citizens into slave catchers has finally failed. The Wisconsin State Supreme Court agreed with him and declared the federal fugitive slave law unconstitutional in Wisconsin. And in fact, in 1850, Wisconsin was the first and only state to declare the fugitive slave law unconstitutional. (04:37–04:47)
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