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

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

Saved in:

Bibliographic Details
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.
Subject:	Underground Railroad -- Iowa. Fugitive slaves -- Iowa -- History -- 19th century. Antislavery movements -- Iowa -- History -- 19th century. Abolitionists -- Iowa -- History -- 19th century. Abolitionists. Antislavery movements. Fugitive slaves. Politics and government Underground Railroad. Iowa -- History -- 19th century. Iowa -- Politics and government -- 19th century. Iowa. Electronic books. History.
Format:	E-Resource Book
URL for this record:	http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/12645436

Hidden Bibliographic Details
ISBN:	9781609382223 1609382226 9781609381936 1609381939
Notes:	Includes bibliographical references and index. Print version record.
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

Table of Contents:

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.