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Necessary courage : Iowa's Underground Railroad in the struggle against slavery
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Necessary courage : Iowa's Underground Railroad in the struggle against slavery / Lowell J. Soike.
ISBN
9781609381936 (paperback : acid-free paper)
1609381939 (paperback : acid-free paper)
9781609382223 (ebook)
1609382226 (ebook)
Publication
Iowa City : University of Iowa Press, [2013]
Physical Description
292 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates ; 23 cm.
Format
Books
Language
English
Added to Catalog
November 21, 2013
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.
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