{"id":41893,"date":"2015-07-23T20:52:56","date_gmt":"2015-07-23T20:52:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mixedracestudies.org\/?p=41893"},"modified":"2015-07-23T20:54:36","modified_gmt":"2015-07-23T20:54:36","slug":"newton-knight-abolitionist-guerrilla-leader-in-mississippi","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/?p=41893","title":{"rendered":"Newton Knight\u2013 abolitionist guerrilla leader in Mississippi"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.workers.org\/articles\/2015\/07\/22\/newton-knight-abolitionist-guerrilla-leader-in-mississippi\/\" target=\"_blank\">Newton Knight\u2013 abolitionist guerrilla leader in Mississippi<\/a><\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.workers.org\" target=\"_blank\">Workers World<\/a><br \/>\n2015-07-22<\/p>\n<p><strong>Paul Wilcox<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><em>A hidden history of the Civil War<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Ever hear of the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.1stalabamacavalryusv.com\/Default.aspx\" target=\"_blank\">First Alabama Cavalry<\/a>, or the name <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Newton_Knight\" target=\"_blank\">Newton Knight<\/a>? Not likely. The capitalist media have always promoted stories of \u201cformer <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Confederate_States_Army\" target=\"_blank\">Confederate<\/a> soldiers\u201d who loyally served the <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Confederate_States_of_America\" target=\"_blank\">Confederacy<\/a>, loved <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Robert_E._Lee\" target=\"_blank\">Gen. Robert E. Lee<\/a>, had no issue with slavery and so on. But there is another story, a hidden history, of poor white opposition to the Confederacy and to slavery&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>&#8230;The Scouts had strong allies in the Black population, giving them food, ammunition, information and other supplies. There is no hard information about the composition of the guerilla army, except that \u201cevery day more blacks liberated from plantations came into the swamps to join the struggle.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Many enslaved people risked life and limb to help, particularly Rachel, an enslaved person, who married Knight after the <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/American_Civil_War\" target=\"_blank\">war<\/a>. <a href=\"http:\/\/knopfdoubleday.com\/book\/87133\/the-state-of-jones\/\" target=\"_blank\">According to Jenkins and Stauffer<\/a>, \u201cThey had an agreement, she would provide him with food and he would work to secure her freedom.\u201d Knight was as good as his word. Eventually, he committed a \u201ccrime\u201d in post-<a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Reconstruction_Era\" target=\"_blank\">Reconstruction<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Mississippi\" target=\"_blank\">Mississippi<\/a> by recognizing their own children and fighting for their right to attend school. Rachel and Newton were buried together outside a cemetery, because it was also \u201cillegal\u201d to have integrated cemeteries at the time&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>Read the entire article <a href=\"http:\/\/www.workers.org\/articles\/2015\/07\/22\/newton-knight-abolitionist-guerrilla-leader-in-mississippi\/\" target=\"_blank\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Newton Knight\u2013 abolitionist guerrilla leader in Mississippi Workers World 2015-07-22 Paul Wilcox A hidden history of the Civil War Ever hear of the First Alabama Cavalry, or the name Newton Knight? Not likely. The capitalist media have always promoted stories of \u201cformer Confederate soldiers\u201d who loyally served the Confederacy, loved Gen. Robert E. Lee, had [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12,459,8,1459,6940,20],"tags":[1457,1456,20501,20500],"class_list":["post-41893","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-articles","category-history","category-media-archive","category-mississippi","category-slavery","category-usa","tag-newt-knight","tag-newton-knight","tag-paul-wilcox","tag-workers-world"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41893","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=41893"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41893\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":41896,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41893\/revisions\/41896"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=41893"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=41893"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=41893"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}