Necessary courage : Iowa's Underground Railroad in the struggle against slavery /

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Author / Creator:Soike, Lowell J., author.
Imprint:Iowa City : University of Iowa Press, 2013.
Description:1 online resource (292 pages).
Language:English
Series:Iowa and the Midwest experience
Iowa and the Midwest experience.
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Format: E-Resource Book
URL for this record:http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/12645436
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ISBN:9781609382223
1609382226
9781609381936
1609381939
Notes:Includes bibliographical references and index.
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Summary:During the 1850s and early 1860s, Iowa, the westernmost free state bordering a slave state, stood as a bulwark of antislavery sentiment while the decades-long struggle over slavery shifted westward. On its southern border lay Missouri, the northernmost slaveholding state. To its west was the Kansas-Nebraska Territory, where proslavery and antislavery militias battled. Missouri slaves fled to Iowa seeking freedom, finding opponents of slavery who risked their lives and livelihoods to help them, as well as bounty hunters who forced them back into bondage. When opponents of slavery stre.
Other form:Print version: Soike, Lowell J. Necessary courage. 9781609381936 1609381939

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505 0 |a Introduction: Between Slavery and Freedom -- Iowa and the Politics of Slavery -- Iowa Becomes Antislavery -- The Struggle Intensifies -- A Hole of Abolitionists -- The Kansas-Nebraska Act and Political Change in Iowa -- Escapes and Rescues -- Iowa and the Martyrdom of John Brown -- Fearless Defiance -- War and Rebirth -- Remembering and Forgetting the Underground Railroad. 
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