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As it turns out, I recommended the wrong book the other day that had
"Rich Man's War" in the title even though it was germane to the topic of
refusing to fight for the ruling class. Nelson Blackstock, who knows
firsthand about the lives of workers in the South, clarified that the
book he referred me to was about opposition to the Civil War, not WWI
even though the class dynamics were identical. He was talking about a
book very much in the spirit of "The Free State of Jones".
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In Rich Man's War historian David Williams focuses on the Civil War
experience of people in the Chattahoochee River Valley of Georgia and
Alabama to illustrate how the exploitation of enslaved blacks and poor
whites by a planter oligarchy generated overwhelming class conflict
across the South, eventually leading to Confederate defeat.
This conflict was so clearly highlighted by the perception that the
Civil War was "a rich man's war and a poor man's fight" that growing
numbers of oppressed whites and blacks openly rebelled against
Confederate authority, undermining the fight for independence. After the
war, however, the upper classes encouraged enmity between freedpeople
and poor whites to prevent a class revolution. Trapped by racism and
poverty, the poor remained in virtual economic slavery, still dominated
by an almost unchanged planter elite.
full:
https://www.amazon.com/Rich-Mans-War-Confederate-Chattahoochee/dp/0820320331
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