The free state of Jones : Mississippi's longest civil war /

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 they de...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Bynum, Victoria E. (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Chapel Hill : University of North Carolina Press, [2016]
Colección:Fred W. Morrison series in Southern studies.
Temas:
Knight family.
1800-1899
Military deserters > Mississippi > Jones County > History > 19th century.
Unionists (United States Civil War) > Mississippi > Jones County.
Racially mixed people > Mississippi > Jones County > History > 19th century.
Déserteurs > Mississippi > Jones > Histoire > 19e siècle.
Unionistes (Guerre de Sécession américaine) > Mississippi > Jones.
HISTORY > United States > State & Local > General.
Military deserters.
Racially mixed people.
Social aspects.
Social conditions.
Unionists (United States Civil War)
Jones County (Miss.) > Social conditions > 19th century.
Mississippi > History > Civil War, 1861-1865 > Social aspects.
United States > History > Civil War, 1861-1865 > Social aspects.
Jones County (Miss.) > Biography.
Jones County (Miss.) > History > 19th century.
Mississippi > Histoire > 1861-1865 (Guerre de Sécession) > Aspect social.
États-Unis > Histoire > 1861-1865 (Guerre de Sécession) > Aspect social.
Mississippi.
Mississippi > Jones County.
United States.
Biographies.
History.
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Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Timeline : The Free State of Jones
  • Preface
  • Introduction. Sacred wars : race and the ongoing battle over the Free State of Jones
  • part one. The origins of Mississippi's Piney Woods people
  • 1. Jones County's Carolina connection : class and race in Revolutionary America
  • 2. The quest for land : yeoman Republicans on the southwestern frontier
  • 3. Piney Woods patriarchs : class relations and the growth of slavery
  • 4. Antebellum life on the Leaf River : gender, violence, and religious strife
  • part two. Civil War, Reconstruction, and the struggle for power
  • 5. The inner Civil War : birth of the Free State of Jones
  • 6. The Free State turned upside down : Colonel Lowry's Confederate Raid on Jones County
  • 7. Reconstruction and redemption : the politics of race, class, and manhood in Jones County
  • 8. Defiance and domination : ''white Negroes'' in the Piney Woods New South
  • Epilogue. The Free State of Jones revisited : Davis Knight's miscegenation trial
  • Appendixes
  • 1. Selected descendants of the Knight family
  • 2. Selected descendants of the Coleman family
  • 3. Selected descendants of the Welborn family
  • 4. Selected descendants of the Bynum family
  • 5. Selected descendants of the Collins family
  • 6. Selected descendants of the Sumrall family
  • 7. Selected descendants of the Welch family
  • 8. Selected descendants of the Valentine family
  • 9. The ''white Negro'' community, 1880-1920.

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