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The city's trade unionists, socialists, and anarchists advanced theological critiques of laissez faire capitalism and protested \"scab ministers\" who cozied up to the business elite. Their criticisms compounded church leaders' anxieties about losing the poor, such that by the turn-of-the-century many leading Christians were arguing that the only way to salvage hopes of a Christian America was for the churches to soften their position on \"the labor question.\" As denomination after denomination did just that, it became apparent that the Social Gospel was, indeed, ascendant--from below.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAt a time when the fate of the labor movement and rising economic inequality are once more pressing social concerns, \u003cem\u003eUnion Made \u003c\/em\u003eopens the door for a new way forward--by changing the way we think about the past.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eHeath W. 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Slavery was the catalyst for fiery rhetoric on both sides of the Mason-Dixon line and fiery conflicts on the western edges of the nation. Driven by questions regarding the place of slavery in westward expansion and by the increasing influence of evangelical Protestant faiths that viewed the institution as inherently sinful, political debates about slavery took on a radicalized, uncompromising fervor in states and territories west of the Mississippi River.\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eBusy in the Cause\u003c\/i\u003e explores the role of the Midwest in shaping national politics concerning slavery in the years leading up to the Civil War. In 1856 Iowa aided parties of abolitionists desperate to reach Kansas Territory to vote against the expansion of slavery, and evangelical Iowans assisted runaway slaves through Underground Railroad routes in Missouri, Kansas, and Nebraska. Lowell J. 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