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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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9781469628011 (electronic bk.) |
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1469628015 (electronic bk.) |
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9781469627052 |
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