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

Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Soike, Lowell J. (Author)
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Iowa City : University of Iowa Press, [2013]
Series:Iowa and the Midwest experience.
Subjects:
Underground Railroad > Iowa.
Fugitive slaves > Iowa > History > 19th century.
Antislavery movements > Iowa > History > 19th century.
Abolitionists > Iowa > History > 19th century.
Iowa > History > 19th century.
Iowa > Politics and government > 19th century.
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.