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The State of Jones by John Stauffer, Sally Jenkins (2009, Hardcover) 
The State of Jones by John Stauffer, Sally Jenkins (2009, Hardcover)

 
The State of Jones by John Stauffer, Sally Jenkins (2009, Hardcover)

Publisher: Doubleday
Publication Date: 2009-06-23
Language: English
Format: Hardcover
ISBN-10: 0385525931
ISBN-13: 9780385525930
Product ID: EPID70907891
Description: 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 s...
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Synopsis
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.

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Publication Date:2009-06-23

Size
Length:402 pages
Height:9.5 in
Width:6.5 in
Thickness:1.5 in
Weight:25.6 oz

Industry Reviews
"[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."
(07/01/2009)

"[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."
(07/12/2009)

"Ms. Jenkins...and Mr. Stauffer...have brought fresh attention to a little-known and interesting sidebar of Civil War ­history."
(07/16/2009)

"[T]his is an excellent work that casts light on an obscure aspect of the Civil War."
(07/01/2009)

"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..."
(09/27/2009)

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