The free state of Jones : Mississippi's longest civil war
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書誌事項
The free state of Jones : Mississippi's longest civil war
（The Fred W. Morrison series in Southern studies）
University of North Carolina Press, c2001
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Includes bibliographical references (p. [281]-304) and index
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内容説明
The true story and long legacy of a famous anti-Confederate uprising; 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 even inspired a novel, Tap Roots, which was made into a Hollywood movie in the 1940s. The debate over whether the county actually seceded from the state during the war continues to smolder. 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 had ended, and the ambiguous racial identity of their descendants confounded the rules of segregated Mississippi well into the twentieth century.
Victoria Bynum traces the origins and legacy of the Jones County uprising from the American Revolution to the modern civil rights movement. 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.
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