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Author Bynum, Victoria E.,
Title The free state of Jones : Mississippi's longest civil war / Victoria E. Bynum.
Publisher Chapel Hill : University of North Carolina Press, [2016]
Copyright date ©2016



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Contents 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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ISBN 9781469628011 (electronic bk.)
1469628015 (electronic bk.)
9781469627052
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Author Bynum, Victoria E.,
Series The Fred W. Morrison series in Southern studies
Fred W. Morrison series in Southern studies.
Subject 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.
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Contents 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.
Note .
ISBN 9781469628011 (electronic bk.)
1469628015 (electronic bk.)
9781469627052
Author Bynum, Victoria E.,
Series The Fred W. Morrison series in Southern studies
Fred W. Morrison series in Southern studies.
Subject 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.

Subject 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.
Descript 1 online resource
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Contents 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.
Note .
ISBN 9781469628011 (electronic bk.)
1469628015 (electronic bk.)
9781469627052

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