02997nam 2200637 450 991082370270332120230803031527.01-60938-222-6(CKB)2670000000427665(EBL)1400809(OCoLC)858764795(SSID)ssj0001002193(PQKBManifestationID)11640094(PQKBTitleCode)TC0001002193(PQKBWorkID)10995850(PQKB)11332672(MiAaPQ)EBC1400809(MdBmJHUP)muse27486(Au-PeEL)EBL1400809(CaPaEBR)ebr10765108(EXLCZ)99267000000042766520130329d2013 uy 0engurcnu||||||||txtccrNecessary courage Iowa's Underground Railroad in the struggle against slavery /Lowell J. SoikeIowa City :University of Iowa Press,2013.1 online resource (320 p.)Iowa and the Midwest experienceDescription based upon print version of record.1-60938-193-9 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.During the 1850's and early 1860's, 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 streamed westIowa and the Midwest ExperienceAbolitionistsIowaHistory19th centuryAntislavery movementsIowaHistory19th centuryFugitive slavesIowaHistory19th centuryUnderground RailroadIowaIowaHistory19th centuryIowaPolitics and government19th centuryAbolitionistsHistoryAntislavery movementsHistoryFugitive slavesHistoryUnderground Railroad326/.80977709034Soike Lowell J850323MiAaPQMiAaPQMiAaPQBOOK9910823702703321Necessary courage4030884UNINA