Fugitive slave resistance fractured the Confederacy along class lines

Evidence

Every week in the spring of 1862, thousands of fugitives were cutting through forests, reaching the southern Union lines, and leaving behind paralyzed plantations and an increasingly divided Confederacy. Some soldiers deserted the Confederate Army. Some of the Confederate deserters joined enslaved Africans to wage revolts against their common enemies: wealthy planters. And some upcountry non-slaveholding Whites had already become disillusioned fighting this slaveholders’ war. — Ibram X. Kendi, Stamped from the Beginning, 578

Categorization

• XREF: Class-based disillusionment with the slaveholders’ war connects to the reader’s three-way scheme — poor whites breaking from a segregationist system over economic self-interest, matching Kendi’s premise that self-interest drives racial policy.