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

• Autore: Soike Lowell J
• Pubblicazione: Iowa City : , : University of Iowa Press, , 2013
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (320 p.)
• Disciplina: 326/.80977709034
• Soggetto topico: Abolitionists - Iowa - History - 19th century; Antislavery movements - Iowa - History - 19th century; Fugitive slaves - Iowa - History - 19th century; Underground Railroad - Iowa
• Soggetto geografico: Iowa History 19th century; Iowa Politics and government 19th century
• Note generali: Description based upon print version of record.
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references and index.
• Nota di contenuto: 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.
• Sommario/riassunto: 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 west
• Titolo autorizzato: Necessary courage
• ISBN: 1-60938-222-6
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910787659703321
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II
• Serie: Iowa and the Midwest Experience