Dixie Be Damned

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Neal Shirley. Dixie Be Damned

Contents

An Introduction

A Subtle yet Restless Fire:

Ogeechee Till Death:

The Lowry Wars:

The Stockade Stood Burning:

Wild Hearts in the Southern Mills:

From Rebel to Citizen and Back Again:

“We Asked For Life!”

Conclusion:

Bibliography

Praise

Index

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To our families who taught us to be proud of where we’re from; to our friends who gave us their unending support, critique, advice, and patience; to all those who wear the mask, and those with whom we’ve shared the streets and occupations of the last few years; to all the lives who filled these pages with their words and deeds and passion for freedom, who are the very reason we took pause to write and the reason we still fight. This book belongs to y’all.

Interlude I 14

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At least thirty-four other conspirators were hanged as well, while one committed suicide and four managed to escape from jail and were never recaptured. Two of these escapes were the result of a mob action by Black maroons besieging the Hanover County courthouse, wherein they released the prisoners, charged the guard, “knocked him down” and “stamped on him,” and ran away. According to one slave-owner, the break was planned throughout the previous week when slaves visited the prisoners, “under the pretence of a preaching.”45 A wave of repression and white paranoia erupted after Gabriel’s Uprising, especially in Virginia but extending well beyond its borders. Arrests and hangings continued throughout the winter of 1800–1801.

Insurrections of 1800–1810

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