In 1983 the Marine Electric; a "reconditioned" World War II vessel; was on a routine voyage thirty miles off the East Coast of the United States when disaster struck: The old coal carrier sank in the frigid forty-foot waves and subzero winds of the Atlantic; and of the thirty-four men aboard; only three survived. Until the Sea Shall Free Them recounts in compelling detail the wreck of the Marine Electric and the legal drama that unfolded in its wake--a lawsuit that led to vital reforms in the laws regarding the safety of ships.
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0 of 0 people found the following review helpful. A VERY HELPFUL SURVEY OF ISLAM IN AMERICA; PARTICULARLY THE "NUMBERS"By Steven H ProppAt the time he wrote this 2004 book; Mbaye Lo was Lecturer in Arabic Studies at Kent State University. He writes in the Preface; "How did this community grow from eighteen people to tens of thousands of followers? What led to the establishment of eleven mosques instead of one mosque half a century before? Answering those qustions is the subject of this book. In brief; this book used several qualitative research methods to examine the growth of Islam in the United States in general and the history of the Muslim community in Cleveland; Ohio; in particular."Here are some quotations from the book:"The concept of complete separation between church and state or public and private does not hold in Islam." (Pg. 6)"Islam is the fastest growing religion in the United States. Because the U.S. Census Bureau does not identify religious affiliation; there is no official account for the number of Muslims in this country." (Pg. 17)"Different mosques may have different rules on such issues as separating the sexes. Some specify an upper level for women or use curtains to separate male and female worshippers. Others might have a less strict separation. For instance; allowing women to pray in the rear of the same room as men. These differences stem from whichever school of Islamic jurisprudence the communiy mosque has adopted." (Pg. 18-19)"Although African-Americans make up only twelve percent of the total American population; they represent more than one-third of the estimated seven million U.S. Muslims." (Pg. 29)"The view that Islam is a religion that grows from the bottom up explains why more than eighty percent of the American converts/reverts to Islam are African-Americans." (Pg. 44)"According to a 1989 study ... only eighteen percent of Muslims are in the Arab world; Turkey; Iran; and Afghanistan account for ten percent of the non-Arab Middle East; thirty percent live on the Indian subcontinent; twenty percent in sub-Saharan Africa; seventeen percent in Southeast Asia; and ten percent in China and countries of the former Soviet Union." (Pg. 89)
