Dixie Be Damned: 300 Years of Insurrection in the American South by Saralee Stafford, Neal Shirley

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

Saralee Stafford, Neal Shirley

280 pages • first pub 2015 (editions)

nonfiction history politics race informative reflective slow-paced
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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 escalat...

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