Historians are giving credence to W.E.B. DuBois’s assertion that enslaved workers coordinated a general strike, which helped end the Civil War.
Livia Gershon explains why in this blog post on JSTOR Daily (“Where news meets its scholarly match.”)
Textbooks in the United States have long portrayed the Civil War as a clash between two armies of white soldiers, with the black enslaved people playing a passive role at the center of the drama.
Scholars, like political scientist Errol A. Henderson writes about a different interpretation, which gives full credit to enslaved workers whose rebellion was key to winning the war for the North.
Read the full story here: Did Black Rebellion Win the Civil War?
Dennis Coday 