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The State of Jones (Audio)

By: John Stauffer (Author), Sally Jenkins (Author) and Don Leslie (Narrator)

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"THE STATE OF JONES contains much that is moving and powerful....[T]his is an important story that personalizes what remains abstract and counterintuitive in much of our received history of the Civil War..."

"[T]his is an excellent work that casts light on an obscure aspect of the Civil War."

"[E]xceedingly readable and informative....THE STATE OF JONES is as interesting for its depiction of resisters' domestic and communal life--the Primitive Baptist, egalitarian, non-slave-owning farming society--as for Knight's exploits."

"[W]ell written, well read, and well researched. The true South is revealed, from the hardships of the war to the hardscrabble, poverty-ridden lives of the farmers who wore gray. Their stories, and that of Knight, are in turn impressive, depressing, complex, and always compelling."

"Ms. Jenkins...and Mr. Stauffer...have brought fresh attention to a little-known and interesting sidebar of Civil War ­history."

Publisher's note

"New York Times" bestselling author Sally Jenkins and distinguished Harvard professor John Stauffer mine a nearly forgotten piece of Civil War history and strike gold in this surprising account of the only Southern county to secede from the Confederacy.
"The State of Jones" is a true story about the South during the Civil War--the "real "South. Not the South that has been mythologized in novels and movies, but an authentic, hardscrabble place where poor men were forced to fight a rich man's war for slavery and cotton. 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.
This riveting investigative account takes us inside the battle of Corinth, where thousands lost their lives over less than a quarter mile of land, and to the dreadful siege of Vicksburg, presenting a gritty picture of a war in which generals sacrificed thousands through their arrogance and ignorance. Off the battlefield, the Newton Knight story is rich in drama as well. He was a man with two loves: his wife, who was forced to flee her home simply to survive, and an ex-slave named Rachel, who, in effect, became his second wife. It was Rachel who cared for Knight during the war when he was hunted by the Confederates, and, later, when members of the Knight clan sought revenge for the disgrace he had brought upon the family name.
Working hand in hand with John Stauffer, distinguished chair and professor of the History ofAmerican Civilization at Harvard University, Sally Jenkins has made the leap from preeminent sportswriter to a historical writer endowed with the accuracy, drive, and passion of Doris Kearns Goodwin. The result is Civil War history at its finest.

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Sally Jenkins and John Stauffer present the amazing-but-true tale of Newton Knight, a Southern abolitionist who led an insurrection against the Confederacy during the Civil War. Knight, a resident of Jones County, Mississippi, was the grandson of a prominent slave owner and a soldier in the Confederate army, but he and many other rebels deserted following the brutal Battle of Vicksburg. Using Jones County as their base of operations, Knight and his band, composed of both whites and blacks, launched a series of significant guerrilla attacks against the southern army, helping to turn the tide of the war in their area. Knight was married to a white woman, but he had a large second family with a former slave, and he continued his fight for integration long after the war was over, eventually inciting retaliation from his own kin, who felt that he was disgracing the family legacy.

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