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'''Ableman v. Booth''' was a decision by the U.S. Supreme Court in 1859,  21 Howard 506 (1859). Chief Justice [[Roger B. Taney]] used the opportunity to analyze federal and state powers. Sherman Booth, sentenced to jail by a federal court for assisting in the rescue of a fugitive slave at Milwaukee, was released on a writ of habeas corpus issued by a judge of the Wisconsin Supreme Court on the ground that the [[Fugitive Slave Act]] was unconstitutional. The case was carried to the U.S. Supreme Court, which rendered a unanimous opinion by Taney pronouncing the Fugitive Slave Act valid and forbidding a state to interfere with federal prisoners by habeas corpus writs.  

'''Ableman v. Booth''',  21 Howard 506 (1859), was a decision by the U.S. Supreme Court to uphold [[abolitionist]] Sherman M. Booth's conviction for assisting in the rescue of a fugitive slave at Milwaukee.  A judge of the Wisconsin Supreme Court had released him on a writ of habeas corpus, saying that the [[Fugitive Slave Act]] was unconstitutional. The case was carried to the U.S. Supreme Court, where Chief Justice [[Roger B. Taney]] rendered a unanimous opinion pronouncing the Fugitive Slave Act valid and forbidding a state to interfere with federal prisoners by habeas corpus writs.

 

While this decision effectively nullified laws such as the [[Massachusetts Personal Liberty Act]], it was largely ignored in the North.  The next year, the South was still protesting that fugitive slaves were not being returned <ref>[http://www.google.com/books?id=CJQk9Ax6fZAC Official proceedings of the Democratic National Convention, 1860]</ref>.

==Bibliography==

==Bibliography==

* Swisher, Carl B. ''Roger B. Taney'' (1961)

* Swisher, Carl B. ''Roger B. Taney'' (1961)

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