A New South Rebellion: The Battle against Convict Labor in the Tennessee Coalfields, 1871-1896 (Fred W. Morrison Series in Southern Studies)

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In 1891, thousands of Tennessee miners rose up against the usage of convict labor by the state’s coal companies, eventually engulfing five mountain communities in a riot against government authority. Propelled by the insurgent sensibilities of Populism and Gilded Age unionism, the miners to start with sought to abolish the convict lease system through legal challenges and legislative lobbying. When nonviolent tactics failed to reach reform, the predominantly white miners time and again seized keep watch over of the stockades and expelled the mostly black convicts from the mining districts. Rebel hastened the demise of convict leasing in Tennessee, though at the price 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 The united states, the weaknesses of Populist-era reform politics, and the fluidity of race relations right through the early years of Jim Crow.

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