Dixie Be Damned
Southern states, politics and government
Southern states, social conditions
Slave insurrections
Southern states, history
Riots
Strikes and lockouts
Insurgency
Resistance to Government
Social conflict
Civil rights movements
Social conditions
History
>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 c…
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