Necessary courage : Iowa's Underground Railroad in the struggle against slavery /
Lowell J. Soike.
- 1 online resource (320 pages)
- Iowa and the Midwest experience .
Includes bibliographical references and index.
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.