audiobook Islam in America and Other Writings by Muhammad Alexander Russell Webb in History

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During the 1840s and 1850s; a dangerous ferment afflicted the North-South border region; pitting the slave states of Maryland; Virginia; Kentucky; and Missouri against the free states of New Jersey; Pennsylvania; Ohio; Indiana; and Illinois. Aspects of this struggle--the underground railroad; enforcement of the fugitive slave laws; mob actions; and sectional politics--are well known as parts of other stories. Here; Stanley Harrold explores the border struggle itself; the dramatic incidents that comprised it; and its role in the complex dynamics leading to the Civil War.