The Free State of Jones: Mississippi's Longest Civil War
Editorial Reviews
Washington Times
[This] book should be praised as an original and cogent piece of scholarship on a devilishly complicated and demanding subject.
Review
[This] book should be praised as an original and cogent piece of scholarship on a devilishly complicated and demanding subject.
(Washington Times)
"Bynum shows how future historians might convincingly knit together the all too-often disparate fields of political, ideological, gender, and racial histories.
(Virginia Quarterly Review)"
"Powerful, revisionist, and timely, Bynum's book combines superb history with poignant analysis of historical memory and southern racial mores.
(Choice)"
"The Free State of Jones is clearly a story that needs to be told, and Bynum has done impressive research to bring it to a modern audience.
(Altina L. Waller, University of Connecticut )"
"Few communities fought as much of the war on their own terms or generated as distorted yet profound a legacy afterward as did the men and women of this renegade county in Mississippi's Piney Woods. It's a fascinating story.
(John C. Inscoe, coauthor of The Heart of Confederate Appalachia: Western North Carolina in the Civil War)"
The Free State of Jones: Mississippi's Longest Civil War
The Free State of Jones: Mississippi's Longest Civil War,Victoria E. Bynum,The University of North Carolina Press,0807854670,Ethnic Studies - African American Studies - General,History,History - U.S.,History: American,United States - Civil War,United States - State & Local - General,Civil War; Confederate deserters; Piney Woods; Mississippi; Knight Company; Newton Knight; Leaf River; Jones County; Republic of Jones; Davis Knight; American Revolution; Civil Rights Movement; Old South; New South; Free State of Jones,History / United States / Civil War Period (1850-1877)
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