"And Clair Boone, from the Pee Dee Swamp, "I fought in this war. I fought three years before I got enough learning to read a newspaper, or a book. Two brothers of mine, they're dead -- for what? A war to keep a few damned slave operators in power! We didn't know, by God, we couldn't!" -- p. 79
Please find three other passages that explicitly raise the issue of class and class interests. Discuss how Fast deals with the class contradictions -- the conflicts of interest between the elites (North and South) and the 'poor whites' and freed slaves.
You may want to compare and contrast this with the treatment of these class contradictions of interest in Chapter 1 of Labor's Untold Story.
Please write 300 words on this subject.
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