LEADER 03031nam 2200649 450 001 9910463059303321 005 20200520144314.0 010 $a1-60938-222-6 035 $a(CKB)2670000000427665 035 $a(EBL)1400809 035 $a(OCoLC)858764795 035 $a(SSID)ssj0001002193 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)11640094 035 $a(PQKBTitleCode)TC0001002193 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)10995850 035 $a(PQKB)11332672 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC1400809 035 $a(MdBmJHUP)muse27486 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL1400809 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebr10765108 035 $a(EXLCZ)992670000000427665 100 $a20130329d2013 uy 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aurcnu|||||||| 181 $ctxt 182 $cc 183 $acr 200 10$aNecessary courage $eIowa's Underground Railroad in the struggle against slavery /$fLowell J. Soike 210 1$aIowa City :$cUniversity of Iowa Press,$d2013. 215 $a1 online resource (320 p.) 225 0$aIowa and the Midwest experience 300 $aDescription based upon print version of record. 311 $a1-60938-193-9 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references and index. 327 $aIntroduction: 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. 330 $aDuring the 1850's and early 1860's, Iowa, the westernmost free state bordering a slave state, stood as a bulwark of antislavery sentiment while the decades-long struggle over slavery shifted westward. On its southern border lay Missouri, the northernmost slaveholding state. To its west was the Kansas-Nebraska Territory, where proslavery and antislavery militias battled. Missouri slaves fled to Iowa seeking freedom, finding opponents of slavery who risked their lives and livelihoods to help them, as well as bounty hunters who forced them back into bondage. When opponents of slavery streamed west 410 0$aIowa and the Midwest Experience 606 $aAbolitionists$zIowa$xHistory$y19th century 606 $aAntislavery movements$zIowa$xHistory$y19th century 606 $aFugitive slaves$zIowa$xHistory$y19th century 606 $aUnderground Railroad$zIowa 607 $aIowa$xHistory$y19th century 607 $aIowa$xPolitics and government$y19th century 608 $aElectronic books. 615 0$aAbolitionists$xHistory 615 0$aAntislavery movements$xHistory 615 0$aFugitive slaves$xHistory 615 0$aUnderground Railroad 676 $a326/.80977709034 700 $aSoike$b Lowell J$0850323 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910463059303321 996 $aNecessary courage$92137597 997 $aUNINA