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The author of "the Economics of Emancipation was not MicHael Craton but Katherine Mary Butler Delahays ( talk) 15:10, 12 June 2015 (UTC) reply

A fact from this article was featured on Wikipedia's Main Page in the On this day section on December 25, 2017 and December 25, 2021.

From what I have read (from a book I no longer have access to) it was really an industrial dispute and only escalated into violence because the slave owners responded with murder. As such it really isn't a part of Military history but an especially dark chapter in industrial relations.