{"id":192,"date":"2008-07-22T13:04:00","date_gmt":"2008-07-22T18:04:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/housedivided.dickinson.edu\/blog\/?p=192"},"modified":"2010-06-16T11:24:15","modified_gmt":"2010-06-16T16:24:15","slug":"john-brown-in-iowa","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/housedivided.dickinson.edu\/sites\/blogdivided\/2008\/07\/22\/john-brown-in-iowa\/","title":{"rendered":"John Brown in Iowa"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>As a NEH participant in the URR workshop, I want to recognize John Brown&#8217;s link to Iowa by pointing out that Brown, on his way east to prepare for Harper&#8217;s Ferry, stopped among the Quaker community in Iowa near Springdale. A couple of Quakers from that community, &#8220;abandoning their pacifist principals to fight with Brown,&#8221; to paraphrase one source, accompanied him and helped to execute the violence at Harper&#8217;s Ferry.<\/p>\n<p>Springdale is within eyesight today of Interstate 80, about 55 miles west of the I-80 bridge over the Mississippi River. That Quaker community was the same later to influence the upbringing of Herbert Hoover, born in West Branch, about 6 miles to the west of Springdale. Herbert Hoover Historic Site explains some of Hoover&#8217;s Quaker influences, and the site features a meetinghouse from the area used by the Friends. The national park is easily accessible, a little more than a quarter mile from the exit ramp of the interstate, and features Hoover&#8217;s birth home, a presidential library, and gravesites.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As a NEH participant in the URR workshop, I want to recognize John Brown&#8217;s link to Iowa by pointing out that Brown, on his way east to prepare for Harper&#8217;s Ferry, stopped among the Quaker community in Iowa near Springdale. A couple of Quakers from that community, &#8220;abandoning their pacifist principals to fight with Brown,&#8221; [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":18,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[77,47],"tags":[157],"class_list":["post-192","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-antebellum-1840-1861","category-places-to-visit","tag-slavery-abolition"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/housedivided.dickinson.edu\/sites\/blogdivided\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/192","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/housedivided.dickinson.edu\/sites\/blogdivided\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/housedivided.dickinson.edu\/sites\/blogdivided\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/housedivided.dickinson.edu\/sites\/blogdivided\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/18"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/housedivided.dickinson.edu\/sites\/blogdivided\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=192"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/housedivided.dickinson.edu\/sites\/blogdivided\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/192\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2125,"href":"https:\/\/housedivided.dickinson.edu\/sites\/blogdivided\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/192\/revisions\/2125"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/housedivided.dickinson.edu\/sites\/blogdivided\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=192"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/housedivided.dickinson.edu\/sites\/blogdivided\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=192"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/housedivided.dickinson.edu\/sites\/blogdivided\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=192"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}