Isaac S. Loftus and Dr. Lynn Price Robbins chat with Dr. Vikki Bynum about a state that you likely never knew existed. Newton Knight and his followers in Mississippi decided it wasn’t enough to simply oppose the confederacy during the Civil War, so they seceded from the South to create the state of Jones. Learn about the true story behind the Hollywood movie as told in Dr. Bynum’s book, The Free State of Jones: Mississippi's Longest Civil War, and what eventually happened to this long-forgotten state
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Relevant Links:
- Victoria E. Bynam, The Free State of Jones: Mississippi's Longest Civil War - https://uncpress.org/book/9781469627052/the-free-state-of-jones-movie-edition/
- Propaganda - Birth of a Nation (1915) - https://www.britannica.com/topic/The-Birth-of-a-Nation
- Ethel Knight’s The Echo at the Black Horn - https://www.simonandschuster.com/books/The-Free-State-of-Jones-and-The-Echo-of-the-Black-Horn/Thomas-Jefferson-Knight/9781944686956
- Free State of Jones, the movie - https://www.imdb.com/title/tt1124037/
- Dr. Victoria E. Bynam, The Long Shadow of the Civil War: Southern Dissent and Its Legacies - https://uncpress.org/book/9781469609874/the-long-shadow-of-the-civil-war/
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