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Author Soike, Lowell J.

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

Publication Info. Iowa City : University of Iowa Press, 2013.

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Description 1 online resource (320 pages)
text rdacontent
computer rdamedia
online resource rdacarrier
Series Iowa and the Midwest experience
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index.
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.
Note Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (ebrary, viewed October 9, 2013).
Subject Abolitionists -- Iowa -- History -- 19th century.
Antislavery movements -- Iowa -- History -- 19th century.
Fugitive slaves -- Iowa -- History -- 19th century.
Underground Railroad -- Iowa.
Iowa -- History -- 19th century.
Iowa -- Politics and government -- 19th century.
Genre/Form Electronic books.
ISBN 9781609381936
9781609382223 (electronic bk.)

 
    
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