| Description |
1 online resource (xvi, 316 pages) : illustrations |
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Fred W. Morrison series in Southern studies |
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Fred W. Morrison series in Southern studies.
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| Contents |
Sacred Wars: Race and the Ongoing Battle over the Free State of Jones -- 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 -- 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 -- Selected Descendants of the Knight Family -- Selected Descendants of the Coleman Family -- Selected Descendants of the Welborn Family -- Selected Descendants of the Bynum Family -- Selected Descendants of the Collins Family -- Selected Descendants of the Sumrall Family -- Selected Descendants of the Welch Family -- Selected Descendants of the Valentine Family -- The "White Negro" Community, 1880-1920 |
| Summary |
This volume traces the origins and legacy of the Jones County uprising from the American Revolution to the modern civil rights movement. It analyzes the 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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Includes bibliographical references (pages 281-304) and index |
| Notes |
Master and use copy. Digital master created according to Benchmark for Faithful Digital Reproductions of Monographs and Serials, Version 1. Digital Library Federation, December 2002. http://purl.oclc.org/DLF/benchrepro0212 MiAaHDL |
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Knight family.
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Knight family fast |
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Military deserters -- Mississippi -- Jones County -- History -- 19th century
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Unionists (United States Civil War) -- Mississippi -- Jones County
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Racially mixed people -- Mississippi -- Jones County -- History -- 19th century
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HISTORY -- State & Local -- General.
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Military deserters
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Racially mixed people
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Social aspects
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Social conditions
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Unionists (United States Civil War)
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African Americans -- Mississippi.
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Ethnische Beziehungen
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Sezessionskrieg 1861-1865
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Amerikaanse burgeroorlog.
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Opstanden.
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Jones County (Miss.) -- History -- 19th century
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Jones County (Miss.) -- Social conditions -- 19th century
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Mississippi -- History -- Civil War, 1861-1865 -- Social aspects
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United States -- History -- Civil War, 1861-1865 -- Social aspects
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Jones County (Miss.) -- Biography
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Mississippi
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Mississippi -- Jones County
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United States
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United States, Mississippi, Jones -- History.
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United States, Mississippi, Jones -- Military history -- Civil War, 1861-1865.
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United States, Mississippi, Jones -- Slavery and bondage.
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Jones County, Miss.
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Biographies
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History
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Biographies.
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Biographies.
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Electronic book
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| ISBN |
0807875244 |
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9780807875247 |
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9781469628011 |
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1469628015 |
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