Necessary Courage : Iowa's Underground Railroad in the Struggle against Slavery /

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During the 1850s and early 1860s, 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-...

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Main Author: Soike, Lowell J. (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Iowa City : University of Iowa Press, [2013]
Series:Book collections on Project MUSE.
Subjects:
Underground Railroad.
Politics and government
Fugitive slaves.
Antislavery movements.
Abolitionists.
HISTORY > United States > State & Local > Midwest (IA, IL, IN, KS, MI, MN, MO, ND, NE, OH, SD, WI)
SOCIAL SCIENCE > Slavery.
Abolitionnistes > Iowa > Histoire > 19e siecle.
Mouvements antiesclavagistes > Iowa > Histoire > 19e siecle.
Esclaves fugitifs > Iowa > Histoire > 19e siecle.
Underground Railroad > Iowa.
Abolitionists > Iowa > History > 19th century.
Antislavery movements > Iowa > History > 19th century.
Fugitive slaves > Iowa > History > 19th century.
Iowa.
Iowa > Histoire > 19e siecle.
Iowa > Politics and government > 19th century.
Iowa > History > 19th century.
History.
Electronic books.
Online Access:Texto completo
Table of 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.

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