{"id":47976,"date":"2016-06-26T23:35:42","date_gmt":"2016-06-26T23:35:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mixedracestudies.org\/?p=47976"},"modified":"2016-06-26T23:35:42","modified_gmt":"2016-06-26T23:35:42","slug":"free-state-of-jones-the-incredible-true-story-of-newton-knight-and-his-private-rebellion-against-the-confederacy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/?p=47976","title":{"rendered":"Free State of Jones: The Incredible True Story of Newton Knight and His Private Rebellion Against the Confederacy"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.people.com\/article\/free-state-of-jones-newt-knight-real-story-matthew-mcconaughey\" target=\"_blank\"><em><strong>Free State of Jones: The Incredible True Story of Newton Knight and His Private Rebellion Against the Confederacy<\/strong><\/em><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.people.com\" target=\"_blank\">People Magazine<\/a><br \/>\n2016-06-24<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/write_miller\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>Michael Miller<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Free_State_of_Jones_(film)\" target=\"_blank\"><em>Free State of Jones<\/em><\/a> brings to life one of the <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/American_Civil_War\" target=\"_blank\">Civil War&#8217;s<\/a> most extraordinary and counterintuitive episodes, in which a <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Confederate_States_Army\" target=\"_blank\">Confederate<\/a> deserter overthrew his former commanders and established a free &#8220;state&#8221; in his native corner of southeast <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Mississippi\" target=\"_blank\">Mississippi<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Newton_Knight\" target=\"_blank\">Newton Knight<\/a>, played by a ragged, yellow-toothed <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Matthew_McConaughey\" target=\"_blank\">Matthew McConaughey<\/a>, was a poor farmer who, incensed by a new law that allowed landowners to swap 20 slaves for their military service, abandoned his company to lead his own rebellion.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;He looked around at all of his yeoman farmer buddies and said, &#8216;Do you own any slaves?&#8217; They were like, &#8216;No.&#8217; He goes, &#8216;Me neither. I&#8217;m not fighting this war. It&#8217;s a rich man&#8217;s war and a poor man&#8217;s fight. I&#8217;m out of here,&#8217; &#8221; McConaughey tells <em>PEOPLE<\/em> of his character&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>Read the entire article <a href=\"http:\/\/www.people.com\/article\/free-state-of-jones-newt-knight-real-story-matthew-mcconaughey\" target=\"_blank\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Free State of Jones: The Incredible True Story of Newton Knight and His Private Rebellion Against the Confederacy People Magazine 2016-06-24 Michael Miller Free State of Jones brings to life one of the Civil War&#8217;s most extraordinary and counterintuitive episodes, in which a Confederate deserter overthrew his former commanders and established a free &#8220;state&#8221; in [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12,5,459,8,1459,6940,20],"tags":[5505,3883,18372,21887,1457,1456,24302,18800],"class_list":["post-47976","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-articles","category-book-reviews","category-history","category-media-archive","category-mississippi","category-slavery","category-usa","tag-gary-ross","tag-jones-county","tag-matthew-mcconaughey","tag-michael-miller","tag-newt-knight","tag-newton-knight","tag-people","tag-people-magazine"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/47976","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=47976"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/47976\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":47977,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/47976\/revisions\/47977"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=47976"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=47976"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=47976"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}