The Free State of Jones
Author | : Victoria E. Bynum |
Publisher | : Univ of North Carolina Press |
Total Pages | : 338 |
Release | : 2003-02-01 |
ISBN-13 | : 0807854670 |
ISBN-10 | : 9780807854679 |
Rating | : 4/5 (79 Downloads) |
Book Synopsis The Free State of Jones by : Victoria E. Bynum
Download or read book The Free State of Jones written by Victoria E. Bynum and published by Univ of North Carolina Press. This book was released on 2003-02-01 with total page 338 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Across a century, Victoria Bynum reinterprets the cultural, social, and political meaning of Mississippi's longest civil war, waged in the Free State of Jones, the southeastern Mississippi county that was home to a Unionist stronghold during the Civil War and home to a large and complex mixed-race community in the late nineteenth and twentieth centuries.