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We're thrilled to be carrying the newly released book by local authors 
and friends Saralee Stafford and Neal Shirley, Dixie Be Damned: 300 
Years of Insurrection in the American South.

Copies are available now at Internationalist Books & Community Center.

Join us Monday, June 8 at 7:00 pm for a reading and discussion with the 
authors. Their presentation at this past year's Carrboro Anarchist 
Bookfair was the event with the highest attendance we've had in our new 
space, so we know you'll want to be check it out and get here early.

They also have a slew of other local release parties and events. Grab a 
flyer when you stop by the bookshop to get your copy if you can't make 
our event on the 8th.

/*About The Book*/

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 company stores. This was one of the largest 
insurrections in US working-class history. It happened at the same time 
as the widely publicized northern labor war in Homestead, Pennsylvania. 
And it was largely ignored, then and now.

Dixie Be Damned engages seven similarly "hidden" insurrectionary 
episodes in Southern history to demonstrate the region's long arc of 
revolt. Countering images of the South as pacified and conservative, 
this adventurous retelling presents history in the rough. Not the image 
of the South many expect, this is the South of maroon rebellion, wildcat 
strikes, and Robert F. Williams's book Negroes with Guns, a South where 
the dispossessed refuse to quietly suffer their fate. This is people's 
history at its best: slave revolts, multiracial banditry, labor battles, 
prison uprisings, urban riots, and more.
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*//*About The Authors*/

Neal Shirley grew up in Winston-Salem, North Carolina, and now lives in 
Durham, NC, where he is involved in several anti-prison initiatives and 
runs a small publishing project called the North Carolina Piece Corps.

Saralee Stafford was born in the Piedmont of North Carolina. Her recent 
political work has focused on connecting the struggles of street 
organizations with those of anarchists in the area. She teaches 
gender-related health in Durham, North Carolina.
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