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Dixie be Damned: 300 Years of Insurrection in the American South

by Neal Shirley and Saralee Stafford - £16.00  AK Press (2015)
paperback    ISBN 13: 9781849352079 | ISBN 10: 1849352070

In 1891, when coal companies in eastern Tennessee brought in cheap convict labour 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 publicised northern labour 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, labour battles, prison uprisings, urban riots, and more.

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