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Book Review | The Journal of American History, 86.2 | The History Cooperative

A New South Rebellion: The Battle against Convict Labor in the Tennessee Coalfields, 1871-1896. By Karin A. Shapiro. (Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 1998. xviii, 333 pp. Cloth, $55.00, isbn 0-8078-2423-2. Paper, $22.50, isbn 0-8078-4733-X.)

A New South Rebellion provides a perspective from Tennessee on key themes associated with the economic and social transformation of the postbellum South. Karin A. Shapiro stresses the distinctiveness of the circumstances that led biracial bands of coalminers in 1891 and 1892 to seize temporary control of private property, defy law enforcement officers, and force convicts the state had leased to coal operators to leave the mining areas. These armed confrontations cast important light on the character of New South industrialism, patterns of state authority, the socioeconomic circumstances and public values of working people, the intersection of race and class in the Volunteer State, and the workings of the state's judicial and penal systems. . . .

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