labor and religion in the new cotton South Roll, Jarod. creator text bibliography Electronic books. History. ilu 2010 2010 monographic eng 1 online resource (xii, 266 pages) : illustrations, maps. Winner of the Herbert G. Gutman Prize from the Labor and Working-Class History Association In Spirit 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 ground as dissidents fighting for economic security, decent housing, and basic health, ultimately drawing on the democratic potential of evangelical religion to wage working-class revolts against commodity agriculture and the political forces that buoyed it. Roll convincingly shows how the moral clarity and spiritual vigor these working people found in the burgeoning Pentecostal revivals gave them the courage and fortitude to develop an expansive agenda of workers' rights by tapping into the powers of existing organizations such as the Socialist Party, the Universal Negro Improvement Association, the NAACP, and the interracial Southern Tenant Farmers' Union. Front Matter -- Introduction / Amanda Porterfield, John Corrigan -- Exploration and Encounter (1492₆1692). Politics / Amanda Porterfield -- Cosmology / John Corrigan -- Community / Sarah Rivett -- Practice / Tracy N Leavelle -- The Atlantic World (1692₆1803). Politics / Jon Sensbach -- Cosmology / Stephen A Marini -- Community / Kenneth P Minkema -- Practice / Martha L Finch -- American Empire (1803₆1898). Politics / Mark A Noll -- Cosmology / Robert Fuller -- Community / Heather D Curtis -- Practice / Christopher White -- Global Reach (1898₆Present). Politics / Charles H Lippy -- Cosmology / Kathryn Lofton -- Community / Peter W Williams -- Practice / Candy Gunther Brown -- Acknowledgments -- Index. Jarod Roll. Includes bibliographical references and index. n-us-mo Tenant farmers Missouri History African American farmers Missouri History Labor movement Missouri History Working class Religious life Missouri History SOCIAL SCIENCE Discrimination & Race Relations SOCIAL SCIENCE Minority Studies RELIGION General African American farmers Labor movement Tenant farmers Working class Religious life Missouri HD1511.U6 M876 2010 305.9/6309778909041 Roll, Jarod. Urbana : University of Illinois Press, ©2010 (DLC) 2010005641 (OCoLC)460058118 9781444315806 1444315803 9780252099267 0252099265 10.1002/9781444315806 Wiley InterScience http://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&scope=site&db=nlebk&db=nlabk&AN=1233353 http://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&scope=site&db=nlebk&db=nlabk&AN=1233353 DG1 100528 20200709060448.0 ocn632158148 eng