{"id":16297,"date":"2026-05-22T10:00:38","date_gmt":"2026-05-22T15:00:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/?p=16297"},"modified":"2026-05-19T16:58:36","modified_gmt":"2026-05-19T21:58:36","slug":"iowa-and-the-underground-railroad","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/2026\/05\/iowa-and-the-underground-railroad\/","title":{"rendered":"Iowa and the Underground Railroad"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>As endorsed by former Des Moines Register editor and current president of the Iowa Freedom of Information Council, <a href=\"https:\/\/substack.com\/profile\/8003222-randy-evans\/note\/c-254893249\">Randy Evans<\/a>: &#8220;This is a very readable account of the role Iowa, and Iowans, played in slaves gaining their freedom in the dark days of American history. <a href=\"https:\/\/betweentworivers.substack.com\/p\/iowa-and-the-underground-railroad\">I invite you to brush up on your Iowa history<\/a>.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/betweentworivers.substack.com\/p\/iowa-and-the-underground-railroad\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-16292\" src=\"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/substack_undergroundrr.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"600\" height=\"600\" srcset=\"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/substack_undergroundrr.jpg 600w, http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/substack_undergroundrr-300x300.jpg 300w, http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/substack_undergroundrr-150x150.jpg 150w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As endorsed by former Des Moines Register editor and current president of the Iowa Freedom of Information Council, Randy Evans: &#8220;This is a very readable account of the role Iowa, and Iowans, played in slaves gaining their freedom in the &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/2026\/05\/iowa-and-the-underground-railroad\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[18],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-16297","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-iowa-miscellaneous"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16297","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=16297"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16297\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":16298,"href":"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16297\/revisions\/16298"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=16297"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=16297"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=16297"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}