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By Lowell J. Soike

During the 1850s and early 1860s, Iowa, the westernmost loose nation bordering a slave kingdom, stood as a bulwark of antislavery sentiment whereas the decades-long fight over slavery shifted westward. On its southern border lay Missouri, the northernmost slaveholding nation. To its west was once the Kansas-Nebraska Territory, the place proslavery and antislavery militias battled. Missouri slaves fled to Iowa looking freedom, discovering rivals of slavery who risked their lives and livelihoods to assist them, in addition to bounty hunters who compelled them again into bondage. while competitors of slavery streamed west around the state’s extensive prairies to avoid slaveholders from dominating Kansas, Iowans fed, housed, and armed the antislavery settlers. no longer a number of younger Iowa males additionally took up arms.

In Necessary Courage, historian Lowell J. Soike information long-forgotten tales of decided runaways and the brave Iowans who acted as conductors in this most threatening of railroads—the underground railroad. Alexander Clark, an African American businessman in Muscatine, concealed a tender fugitive in his apartment to guard him from slavecatchers whereas he fought for his freedom within the courts. whereas retaining antislavery newspapers totally apprised of the conflict opposed to human bondage in western Iowa, Elvira Gaston Platt drove a wagon choked with fugitives to the subsequent secure condominium less than the noses of her proslavery pals. John Brown, fleeing throughout Iowa with a cost on his head for the murders of proslavery Kansas settlers, depended on Iowans like Josiah Grinnell and William Penn Clarke to maintain him, his males, and the twelve Missouri slaves they'd liberated hidden from the professionals. a number of younger Iowans went directly to struggle along Brown at Harpers Ferry. those tales and lots of extra are instructed here.

A suspenseful and infrequently heartbreaking story of desperation, braveness, crafty, and betrayal, this publication unearths the serious function that Iowans performed within the fight opposed to slavery and the arrival of the Civil War.

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