{"id":44002,"date":"2016-03-04T20:34:07","date_gmt":"2016-03-04T20:34:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mixedracestudies.org\/?p=44002"},"modified":"2016-06-28T01:50:42","modified_gmt":"2016-06-28T01:50:42","slug":"the-free-state-of-jones-movie-edition-mississippis-longest-civil-war","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/?p=44002","title":{"rendered":"The Free State of Jones, Movie Edition: Mississippi’s Longest Civil War"},"content":{"rendered":"

The Free State of Jones, Movie Edition: Mississippi’s Longest Civil War<\/a><\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n

University of North Carolina Press<\/a>
\nMarch 2016
\n352 pages
\n32 halftones, 10 maps, 4 tables
\nappends., notes, bibl., index
\nPaper ISBN 978-1-4696-2705-2<\/p>\n

Victoria E. Bynum<\/a><\/strong>, Distinguished Professor Emeritus of History
\nTexas State University, San Marcos<\/em><\/p>\n

\"\"<\/a><\/p>\n

With a New Afterword by the Author<\/em><\/p>\n

Between late 1863 and mid-1864, an armed band of Confederate<\/a> deserters battled Confederate cavalry in the Piney Woods region<\/a> of Jones County, Mississippi<\/a>.<\/strong> Calling themselves the Knight Company after their captain, Newton Knight<\/a>, they set up headquarters in the swamps of the Leaf River<\/a>, where they declared their loyalty to the U.S. government.<\/p>\n

The story of the Jones County rebellion is well known among Mississippians<\/a>, 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 relationship there developed a mixed-race community that endured long after the Civil War<\/a> had ended, and the ambiguous racial identity of their descendants confounded the rules of segregated Mississippi well into the twentieth century.<\/p>\n

Victoria Bynum traces the origins and legacy of the Jones County uprising from the American Revolution<\/a> to the modern civil rights movement<\/a>. In bridging the gap between the legendary and the real Free State of Jones, she shows how the legend–what was told, what was embellished, and what was left out–reveals a great deal about the South’s transition from slavery to segregation; the racial, gender, and class politics of the period; and the contingent nature of history and memory.<\/p>\n

In a new afterword, Bynum updates readers on recent scholarship, current issues of race and Southern heritage, and the coming movie that make this Civil War story essential reading.<\/p>\n

The Free State of Jones<\/a><\/em> film, starring Matthew McConaughey<\/a>, Gugu Mbatha-Raw<\/a>, and Keri Russell<\/a>, will be released in May 2016.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The Free State of Jones, Movie Edition: Mississippi’s Longest Civil War University of North Carolina Press March 2016 352 pages 32 halftones, 10 maps, 4 tables appends., notes, bibl., index Paper ISBN 978-1-4696-2705-2 Victoria E. Bynum, Distinguished Professor Emeritus of History Texas State University, San Marcos With a New Afterword by the Author Between late […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,459,8,1459,17,20],"tags":[1457,1456,4374,667,1453,1454,14118],"class_list":["post-44002","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-books","category-history","category-media-archive","category-mississippi","category-monographs","category-usa","tag-newt-knight","tag-newton-knight","tag-rachel-knight","tag-university-of-north-carolina-press","tag-victoria-bynum","tag-victoria-e-bynum","tag-vikki-bynum"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44002","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=44002"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44002\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":44003,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44002\/revisions\/44003"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=44002"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=44002"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=44002"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}