Dixie be damned : 300 years of insurrection in the American South

Shirley, Neal (author.). Stafford, Saralee, (author.).

Summary: "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

Record details

ISBN: 1849352089
ISBN: 9781849352086
Physical Description: 1 online resource (293 pages) : illustrations, maps, portraits
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Publisher: Oakland, CA : AK Press, 2015.

Content descriptions

Bibliography, etc. Note:	Includes bibliographical references (pages 271-280) and index.
Formatted Contents Note:	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.
Source of Description Note:	Print version record.