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African Americans in Iowa

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Iowa's initial African-American inhabitants were individuals who were enslaved and unlawfully brought to the state by European Americans during the 1830s. Some African-Americans also migrated independently to Iowa in order to flee from slavery. By the 1840s, a number of them arrived to labor in the lead mines of Dubuque. In the river communities of Burlington, Davenport, Keokuk, and Sioux City, they found employment as deckhands on vessels navigating the Mississippi and Missouri Rivers.

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