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A New South Rebellion: The Battle against Convict Labor in the Tennessee Coalfields, 1871-1896
Contributor(s): Shapiro, Karin a. (Author)

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 ISBN: 080784733X     ISBN-13: 9780807847336
Publisher: University of North Carolina Press
OUR PRICE: $45.13  

Binding Type: Paperback
Published: September 1998
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Annotation: In 1891, Tennessee miners rose up against the use of convict labor by the state's coal companies. Karen Shapiro uses the convict wars to analyze the place of convict labor in southern economic development, bringing to life the hopes that rural southerners invested in industrialization and the political tensions that could result when their aspirations were not met.

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BISAC Categories:
- History | United States - 19th Century
- Political Science | Labor & Industrial Relations
Dewey: 331.51
LCCN: 97-39125
Series: Fred W. Morrison Series in Southern Studies
Physical Information: 0.98" H x 6.24" W x 9.33" L (1.20 lbs) 352 pages
Themes:
- Chronological Period - 1851-1899
- Cultural Region - Deep South
- Cultural Region - Southeast U.S.
- Cultural Region - South
- Geographic Orientation - Tennessee
- Chronological Period - 19th Century
Features: Bibliography, Illustrated, Index, Maps
 
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In 1891, thousands of Tennessee miners rose up against the use of convict labor by the state's coal companies, eventually engulfing five mountain communities in a rebellion against government authority. Propelled by the insurgent sensibilities of Populism and Gilded Age unionism, the miners initially sought to abolish the convict lease system through legal challenges and legislative lobbying. When nonviolent tactics failed to achieve reform, the predominantly white miners repeatedly seized control of the stockades and expelled the mostly black convicts from the mining districts. Insurrection hastened the demise of convict leasing in Tennessee, though at the cost of greatly weakening organized labor in the state's coal regions.
Exhaustively researched and vividly written, A New South Rebellion brings to life the hopes that rural southerners invested in industrialization and the political tensions that could result when their aspirations were not met. Karin Shapiro skillfully analyzes the place of convict labor in southern economic development, the contested meanings of citizenship in late-nineteenth-century America, the weaknesses of Populist-era reform politics, and the fluidity of race relations during the early years of Jim Crow.


Contributor Bio(s): Shapiro, Karin a.: - Karin A. Shapiro received her doctorate from Yale University and served from 1992 to 1997 as a research fellow at Johannesburg's University of the Witwatersrand. She now lives in Durham, North Carolina.
 
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