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Author Roll, Jarod, author.

Title Spirit of rebellion : labor and religion in the new cotton South / Jarod Roll.

Publication Info. Urbana : University of Illinois Press, [2010]

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Description 1 online resource.
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Series The working class in American history
Working class in American history.
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 233-252) and index.
Contents A modern promised land -- Jerusalem -- Saviors of agriculture -- No more mourning -- Bear our burdens together -- On Jordan's stormy Banks.
Summary Winner of the Herbert G. Gutman Prize from the Labor and Working-Class History Association In Spirit of Rebellion, Jarod Roll documents an alternative tradition of American protest by linking working-class political movements to grassroots religious revivals. He reveals how ordinary rural citizens in the south used available resources and their shared faith to defend their agrarian livelihoods amid the political and economic upheaval of the first half of the twentieth century. On the frontier of the New Cotton South in Missouri's Bootheel, the relationships between black and white farmers were complicated by racial tensions and bitter competition. Despite these divisions, workers found common ground as dissidents fighting for economic security, decent housing, and basic health, ultimately drawing on the democratic potential of evangelical religion to wage working-class revolts against commodity agriculture and the political forces that buoyed it. Roll convincingly shows how the moral clarity and spiritual vigor these working people found in the burgeoning Pentecostal revivals gave them the courage and fortitude to develop an expansive agenda of workers' rights by tapping into the powers of existing organizations such as the Socialist Party, the Universal Negro Improvement Association, the NAACP, and the interracial Southern Tenant Farmers' Union.
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Subject Tenant farmers -- Missouri -- History.
Tenant farmers.
Missouri.
History.
African American farmers -- Missouri -- History.
African American farmers.
Labor movement -- Missouri -- History.
Working class -- Religious life -- Missouri -- History.
SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Discrimination & Race Relations.
Labor movement.
SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Minority Studies.
Working class -- Religious life.
RELIGION -- General.
Genre/Form Electronic books.
History.
Other Form: Print version: Spirit of rebellion Urbana : University of Illinois Press, [2010] 9780252035197 (cloth ; alk. paper) (DLC) 2010005641
ISBN 9780252035197 hardcover ; alkaline paper
9780252077036 paperback ; alkaline paper
0252035194 hardcover ; alkaline paper
0252077032 paperback ; alkaline paper
9780252099267 electronic book
0252099265
9781444315806
1444315803
Standard No. 10.1002/9781444315806