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Index
Acknowledgments
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
Chapter 1 Jones County’s Carolina Connection: Class and Race in Revolutionary America
Chapter 2 The Quest for Land: Yeoman Republicans on the Southwestern Frontier
Chapter 3 Piney Woods Patriarchs: Class Relations and the Growth of Slavery
Chapter 4 Antebellum Life on the Leaf River: Gender, Violence, and Religious Strife
Part Two. Civil War, Reconstruction, and the Struggle for Power
Chapter 5 The Inner Civil War: Birth of the Free State of Jones
Chapter 6 The Free State Turned Upside Down: Colonel Lowry’s Confederate Raid on Jones County
Chapter 7 Reconstruction and Redemption: The Politics of Race, Class, and Manhood in Jones County
Chapter 8 Defiance and Domination: “White Negroes” in the Piney Woods New South
Epilogue. The Free State of Jones Revisited: Davis Knight’s Miscegenation Trial
Afterword
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
Notes
Bibliography
Index
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