Necessary courage :

Soike, Lowell J.

Necessary courage : Iowa's Underground Railroad in the struggle against slavery / Lowell J. Soike. - 1 online resource (320 pages) - Iowa and the Midwest experience .

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.

9781609382223 (ebook)


Abolitionists--History--Iowa--19th century.
Antislavery movements--History--Iowa--19th century.
Fugitive slaves--History--Iowa--19th century.
Underground Railroad--Iowa.


Iowa--History--19th century.
Iowa--Politics and government--19th century.


Electronic books.

E450 / .S66 2013eb

326/.80977709034