Free State of Jones Mississippi's Longest Civil War

Name: Free State of Jones Mississippi's Longest Civil War
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ISBN: 9780807854679

ISBN-10: 0807854670

ISBN-13: 9780807854679

Edition: 2003

Authors: Victoria E. Bynum

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Between late 1863 and mid-1864, an armed band of Confederate deserters battled Confederate cavalry in the Piney Woods region of Jones County, Mississippi. Calling themselves the Knight Company after their captain, Newton Knight, they set up headquarters in the swamps of the Leaf River, where, legend has it, they declared the Free State of Jones. The story of the Jones County rebellion is well known among Mississippians, and debate over whether the county actually seceded from the state during the war has smoldered for more than a century. Adding further controversy to the legend is the story of Newt Knight's interracial romance with his wartime accomplice, Rachel, a slave. From their…

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List price: $35.00
Copyright year: 2003
Publisher: University of North Carolina Press
Publication date: 2/24/2003
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 336
Size: 5.75" wide x 9.25" long x 1.00" tall
Weight: 0.990
Language: English

Victoria Bynum is professor of history at Texas State University, San Marcos. She is author ofThe Free State of Jones: Mississippi's Longest Civil WarandUnruly Women: The Politics of Social and Sexual Control in the Old South(both from UNC Press).



Preface


Introduction


Sacred Wars: Race and the Ongoing Battle over the Free State of Jones



The Origins of Mississippi's Piney Woods People



Jones County's Carolina Connection: Class and Race in Revolutionary America



The Quest for Land: Yeoman Republicans on the Southwestern Frontier



Piney Woods Patriarchs: Class Relations and the Growth of Slavery



Antebellum Life on the Leaf River: Gender, Violence, and Religious Strife



Civil War, Reconstruction, and the Struggle for Power



The Inner Civil War: Birth of the Free State of Jones



The Free State Turned Upside Down: Colonel Lowry's Confederate Raid on Jones County



Reconstruction and Redemption: The Politics of Race, Class, and Manhood in Jones County



Defiance and Domination: "White Negroes" in the Piney Woods New South


Epilogue: The Free State of Jones Revisited: Davis Knight's Miscegenation Trial


Appendixes



Selected Descendants of the Knight Family



Selected Descendants of the Coleman Family



Selected Descendants of the Welborn Family



Selected Descendants of the Bynum Family



Selected Descendants of the Collins Family



Selected Descendants of the Sumrall Family



Selected Descendants of the Welch Family



Selected Descendants of the Valentine Family



The "White Negro" Community, 1880-1920


Notes


Bibliography


Index