The Darien Insurrection of 1899 and the Origins of the McIntosh Militia

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ID22010153
AuthorsElliot Ferro (Savannah College of Art and Design, corresponding author)
Year2023
Volume13
Issue2
Pages58-72
Publication date2023-01-01
Peer ReviewedYes
Open AccessYes
TypeARTICLE
VenueArmstrong Undergraduate Journal of History (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 2163-8551 • E-ISSN: 2163-8551
PublisherGeorgia Southern University (PUBLISHER • US)
DOI10.20429/aujh.2023.130205
OpenAlexW4386951030
LanguageEN
Citations received1
References cited9

The Darien insurrection has been portrayed in historical literature as a lone victory of African American self-defense against racist violence in the Jim Crow south. This portrayal ignores the observable cause of the insurrection as a natural extension of decades of black political organizing in McIntosh County. In beginning to center the story of the Darien insurrection in Darien's home of McIntosh county it becomes clear how the insurrection was not a spontaneous event but a planned protest organized by a long surviving political machine. In recognizing the long history of political organizing by Tunis Campbell, a case can then be made how his political machine survived in McIntosh county long after his flight from Georgia, and preserved its central organ: the black civilian militia. Within this context a surprising victory for African American self-defense becomes the unsurprising success of decades of black militancy

Archaeology · Political science · Politics · Victory · American History and Culture · American Political and Social Dynamics · History · Law · Race, History, and American Society

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