Spirit of Rebellion Labor and Religion in the New Cotton South

Name: Spirit of Rebellion Labor and Religion in the New Cotton South
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ISBN: 9780252077036

ISBN-10: 0252077032

ISBN-13: 9780252077036

Edition: 2010

Authors: Jarod Roll

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Winner of the Herbert G. Gutman Prize from the Labor and Working-Class History Association InSpirit of Rebellion,Jarod Roll documents an alternative tradition of American protest by linking working-class political movements to grassroots religious revivals. He reveals how ordinary rural citizens in the south used available resources and their shared faith to defend their agrarian livelihoods amid the political and economic upheaval of the first half of the twentieth century. On the frontier of the New Cotton South in Missouri's Bootheel, the relationships between black and white farmers were complicated by racial tensions and bitter competition. Despite these divisions, workers found common…

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List price: $31.00
Copyright year: 2010
Publisher: University of Illinois Press
Publication date: 4/15/2010
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 288
Size: 6.00" wide x 9.00" long x 1.00" tall
Weight: 0.836
Language: English

Erik S. Gellmanis an assistant professor of history at Roosevelt University in Chicago. He is the author ofDeath Blow to Jim Crow: The National Negro Congress and Militant Civil Rights.Jarod Rollteaches American history at the University of Sussex, England, where he directs the Marcus Cunliffe Centre for the Study of the American South. He is the author of the award-winningSpirit of Rebellion: Labor and Religion in the New Cotton South.