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The Free State of Jones, Mississippi's longest civil war, Victoria E. Bynum

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The Free State of Jones

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Victoria E. Bynum

The Fred W. Morrison series in Southern studies

Mississippi's longest civil war

Victoria Bynum traces the origins and legacy of Mississippi's 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

Introduction: Sacred wars: race and the ongoing battle over the Free State of Jones -- Part one: The origins of Mississippi's Piney Woods people. Jones County's Carolina connection: class and race in revolutionary America -- The quest for land: yeoman republicans on the southwestern frontier -- Piney Woods patriarchs: class relations and the growth of slavery -- Antebellum life on the Leaf River: gender, violence, and religious strife -- Part two: Civil War, Reconstruction, and the struggle for power. The inner civil war: birth of the Free State of Jones -- The Free State turned upside down: Colonel Lowry's Confederate raid on Jones County -- Reconstruction and redemption: the politics of race, class, and manhood in Jones County -- Defiance and domination: "white Negroes" in the Piney Woods New South -- Epilogue: the Free State of Jones revisited: Davis Knight's miscegenation trial -- Appendixes