Author: JENKINS, SALLY & JOHN STAUFFER
Title: The State of Jones the Small Southern County That Seceded from the Confederacy
Description: New York: Anchor, 2010. First Edition Thus. First Printing; Paperback. ISBN: 0767929462. B&W Photographs; 8.03 X 5.20 X 0.94 inches; 402 pages; Soft cover has a tan spine with black lettering. Pages are clean and tight. This is a NEW book. In Jones County, Mississippi, a farmer named Newton Knight led his neighbors, white and black alike, in an insurrection against the Confederacy at the height of the Civil War. Knight's life story mirrors the little-known story of class struggle in the South--and it shatters the image of the Confederacy as a unified front against the Union. Illustrated with 23 b/w pictures. Notes; bibliography; index.. New .

Keywords: 0767929462 American History; War between the States; Civil War; Confederacy; Mississippi Life; State History; Insurrections; Rebellions; Social History; Cultural History Education American History Geography Biography/Memoirs/Journals African American Hist