Necessary courage : Iowa's Underground Railroad in the struggle against slavery / Lowell J. Soike.

By: Material type: TextTextSeries: Iowa and the Midwest experiencePublisher: Iowa City : University of Iowa Press, 2013Description: 1 online resource (320 pages)Content type:
  • text
Media type:
  • computer
Carrier type:
  • online resource
ISBN:
  • 9781609382223 (ebook)
Subject(s): Genre/Form: DDC classification:
  • 326/.80977709034 23
LOC classification:
  • E450 .S66 2013eb
Online resources:
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.
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Includes bibliographical references and index.

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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