$20.00 Quantity 1 ADD TO CART Publisher: AK Press Format: Book Binding: pb Pages: 304 Released: May 1, 2015 ISBN-13: 9781849352079 RELATED PRODUCTS Dixie Be Damned e-book Dixie Be Damned E-Book $10.00 $19.99 In 1891, when coal companies in eastern Tennessee brought in cheap convict labor to take over their jobs, workers responded by storming the stockades, freeing the prisoners, and loading them onto freight trains. Over the next year, tactics escalated to include burning company property and looting company stores. This was one of the largest insurrections in US working-class history. It happened at the same time as the widely publicized northern labor war in Homestead, Pennsylvania. And it was largely ignored, then and now. Dixie Be Damned engages seven similarly "hidden" insurrectionary episodes in Southern history to demonstrate the region's long arc of revolt. Countering images of the South as pacified and conservative, this adventurous retelling presents history in the rough. Not the image of the South many expect, this is the South of maroon rebellion, wildcat strikes, and Robert F. Williams's book Negroes with Guns, a South where the dispossessed refuse to quietly suffer their fate. This is people's history at its best: slave revolts, multiracial banditry, labor battles, prison uprisings, urban riots, and more.
- Author/s:
- Shirley, Neal
Publication Information for Dixie Be Damned: 300 Years of Insurrection in the American South
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- Originally published in 2015
- ISBN: 1849352070
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