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Sherman Booth (1812-1904)

Sherman Booth was an abolitionist editor and leader in Wisconsin. 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, from custody. He 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.