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1 online resource (292 pages). |
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Iowa and the Midwest experience
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Iowa and the Midwest experience.
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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. |
| Summary |
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-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 stre. |
| Local Note |
eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America |
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Underground Railroad -- Iowa.
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Underground Railroad. |
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Iowa. |
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Fugitive slaves -- Iowa -- History -- 19th century.
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Fugitive slaves. |
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History. |
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19th century |
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Antislavery movements -- Iowa -- History -- 19th century.
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Abolitionists -- Iowa -- History -- 19th century.
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Iowa -- History -- 19th century.
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Iowa -- Politics and government -- 19th century.
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Politics and government. |
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Antislavery movements. |
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SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Slavery. |
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Abolitionists. |
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HISTORY -- United States -- State & Local -- Midwest (IA, IL, IN, KS, MI, MN, MO, ND, NE, OH, SD, WI) |
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1800-1899 |
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Electronic books.
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Electronic books.
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History.
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| Other Form: |
Print version: Soike, Lowell J. Necessary courage. 9781609381936 1609381939 (DLC) 2013010116 (OCoLC)835616800 |
| ISBN |
9781609382223 (electronic book) |
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1609382226 (electronic book) |
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9781609381936 (paperback ; acid-free paper) |
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1609381939 (paperback ; acid-free paper) |
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