The Fear of the White Women Journals

Pineville, South Carolina is this like small resort town. It's basically 60 summer homes for like the rich fuck slavers when they're like taking breaks from their plantations. They saw it as this place of refuge against to hide from the war. And some people did go. But then they kind of just didn't work. More and more. Everyone who went there just refused to work. The socialist author W.E.B. Du Bois is the first person I've heard of really talk about this in his 1935 book, Black Reconstruction. Basically, he claims that the thing that won the Civil War was the most powerful general strike the US has ever seen. Half a million