Dixie be damned : 300 years of insurrection in the American South

Shirley, Neal (author.). Stafford, Saralee, (author.).

Summary: "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."

Record details

ISBN: 9781849352086
ISBN: 1849352089
Physical Description: 1 online resource (293 pages) : illustrations, maps, portraits
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Computer data.
Publisher: Oakland, CA : AK Press, 2015.

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General Note:	CatMonthString.january.24 Multi-User.
Bibliography, etc. Note:	Includes bibliographical references (pages 271-280) and index.
Formatted Contents Note:	An Introduction -- Interlude I.A Subtle yet Restless Fire : Attacking Slavery from the Dark Fens of the Great Dismal -- Interlude II. Ogeechee Till Death : Expropriation and Communization in Low-country Georgia -- Interlude III. The Lowry Wars : Attacking Reconstruction and Reaction in Robeson County, North Carolina -- Interlude IV. The Stockade Stood Burning : Rebellion and the Convict Lease in Tennessee's Coalfields -- Interlude V. Wild Hearts in the Southern Mills : Women in the Strike Wave against the Textile Industry, 1929-1930 -- Interlude VI. From Rebel to Citizen and Back Again : Civil Rights, Black Power, and Urban Riots in the New South -- Interlude VII. "We Asked For Life!" : On the 1975 Revolt at the North Carolina Correctional Center for Women -- Interlude VIII. Conclusion : Preliminary Notes for an Anarchist Historiography of the American South.
Type of Computer File or Data Note:	Text (HTML), electronic book.
System Details Note:	Mode of access: Internet.
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Issuing Body Note:	Made available online by EBSCO.
Source of Description Note:	Print version record.