| Description |
1 online resource (293 pages) : illustrations, maps, portraits |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 271-280) and index. |
| Contents |
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. |
| 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." |
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"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"--Publisher's description |
| Local Note |
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| Subject |
Insurgency -- Southern States -- History.
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Government, Resistance to -- Southern States -- History.
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Slave rebellions -- Southern States -- History.
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Strikes and lockouts -- Southern States -- History.
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Civil rights demonstrations -- Southern States -- History.
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Riots -- Southern States -- History.
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Race riots -- Southern States -- History.
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Southern States -- Historiography.
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Southern States -- History.
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Southern States -- Social conditions.
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HISTORY -- United States -- State & Local -- South (AL, AR, FL, GA, KY, LA, MS, NC, SC, TN, VA, WV) |
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Civil rights demonstrations |
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Government, Resistance to |
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Historiography |
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Insurgency |
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Race riots |
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Riots |
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Slave rebellions |
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Social conditions |
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Strikes and lockouts |
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Southern States |
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African Americans Working class people Women Poor people Prisoners Uprisings Rebellions Insurgencies Anti-capitalist movements Southern States |
| Genre/Form |
History
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| Added Author |
Stafford, Saralee, author.
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| Other Form: |
Print version: Shirley, Neal. Dixie Be Damned : 300 Years of Insurrection in the American South. New York : AK Press, ©2015 9781849352079 |
| ISBN |
9781849352086 (electronic bk.) |
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1849352089 (electronic bk.) |
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