Necessary courage : Iowa's Underground Railroad in the struggle against slavery / Lowell J. Soike.
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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University of Iowa Press,
[2013]
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| Series: | Iowa and the Midwest experience.
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