![]() ![]() Saralee Stafford was born in the Piedmont of North Carolina. Neal Shirley grew up in Winston-Salem, North Carolina, and now lives in Durham, NC, where he is involved in several anti-prison initiatives and runs a small publishing project called the North Carolina Piece Corps. This is people's history at its best: slave revolts, multiracial banditry, labor battles, prison uprisings, urban riots, and more. Williams's book Negroes with Guns, a South where the dispossessed refuse to quietly suffer their fate. Not the image of the South many expect, this is the South of maroon rebellion, wildcat strikes, and Robert F. Countering images of the South as pacified and conservative, this adventurous retelling presents history in the rough. Dixie Be Damned engages seven similarly "hidden" insurrectionary episodes in Southern history to demonstrate the region's long arc of revolt. And it was largely ignored, then and now. It happened at the same time as the widely publicized northern labor war in Homestead, Pennsylvania. This was one of the largest insurrections in US working-class history. Over the next year, tactics escalated to include burning company property and looting company stores. 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. ![]()
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