Publisher's Synopsis
This Biographical Dictionary gives over 400 entries of more than 800 Free-Soilers, abolitionists, and Underground Railroad operators in and around Fairfield and Jefferson County, Iowa. Original research into genealogies, censuses, deeds, maps, old newspapers, and biographies uncovers the long-hidden ties between the anti-slavery people and places of Fairfield, Jefferson County, and southeast Iowa, as well as connections to other anti-slavery hotspots in Illinois, Indiana, Ohio, Pennsylvania, and New England.
