Necessary Courage: Iowa's Underground Railroad in the Struggle Against Slavery

by 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-Nebraska Territory, where proslavery and antislavery militias battled. Missouri slaves fled to Iowa seeking freedom, finding opponents of slavery who risked...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1609381939
• ISBN13: 9781609381936
• Release Date: November 2013
• Publisher: University of Iowa Press
• Length: 304 Pages
• Weight: 1.05 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 5.6" x 9.0"