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Paperback / softback. New. 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 streamed west across the state's broad prairies to prevent slaveholders from dominating Kansas, Iowans fed, housed, and armed the antislavery settlers. Not a few young Iowa men also took up arms. In Necessary Courage, historian Lowell J. Soike details long-forgotten stories of determined runaways and the courageous Iowans who acted as conductors on this most dangerous of railroads-the…
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Necessary Courage: Iowa's Underground Railroad in the Struggle Against Slavery Paperback - 2013
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- Title Necessary Courage: Iowa's Underground Railroad in the Struggle Against Slavery
- Author Lowell J. Soike
- Binding Paperback
- Pages 292
- Volumes 1
- Language ENG
- Publisher University of Iowa Press, Iowa City
- Date 2013
- Illustrated Yes
- Features Bibliography, Illustrated, Index, Maps, Table of Contents
- ISBN 9781609381936 / 1609381939
- Weight 1 lbs (0.45 kg)
- Dimensions 8.96 x 5.59 x 0.9 in (22.76 x 14.20 x 2.29 cm)
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- Chronological Period: 1851-1899
- Topical: Civil War
- Library of Congress subjects Iowa - History - 19th century, Underground Railroad - Iowa
- Library of Congress Catalog Number 2013010116
- Dewey Decimal Code 326.809
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