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  2. Newton Knight - Wikipedia

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    Dr. Victoria E. Bynum wrote The Free State of Jones: Mississippi's Longest War (2003), exploring the economic, religious, and kinship factors that helped shape the views of Civil War era residents of the Jones County area. Most were not enslavers; only 12% of the county population in 1860 was black.

  3. Jones County, Mississippi - Wikipedia

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    The State of Jones: The Small Southern County that Seceded from the Confederacy, New York: Random House. ISBN 978-0-385-52593-0. Leverett, Rudy H. (1984, second printing 2009). Legend of the Free State of Jones. University Press of Mississippi. ISBN 0-87805-227-5, ISBN 978-0-87805-227-1. McLemore, Richard Aubrey.

  4. Free State of Jones (film) - Wikipedia

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    Free State of Jones is a 2016 American historical war film inspired by the life of Southern Unionist Newton Knight, who led a successful armed revolt against the Confederacy in Jones County, Mississippi, throughout the American Civil War.

  5. Amos McLemore - Wikipedia

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    Amos McLemore (August 23, 1823 – October 5, 1863) of Jones County, Mississippi, was a schoolteacher, Methodist Episcopal minister, merchant and Confederate States Army soldier. He was killed at Deason Home.

  6. Laurel, Mississippi - Wikipedia

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    Laurel is a city in and the second county seat of Jones County, Mississippi, United States. As of the 2020 census, the city had a population of 17,161. [4] Laurel is northeast of Ellisville, the first county seat, which contains the first county courthouse. It has the second county courthouse, as Jones County has two judicial districts.

  7. Victoria E. Bynum - Wikipedia

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    Her book "Free State of Jones" on the civil war history of Jones County, Mississippi was an inspiration for the 2016 film of the same name. [4] [5] Bynum sold the rights to the book to Universal Studios in 2007. [6]

  8. Ellisville, Mississippi - Wikipedia

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    Ellisville is a town in and the first county seat of Jones County, Mississippi, United States. The population was 4,448 at the time of the 2010 census, [ 2 ] up from 3,465 at the 2000 census. The Jones County Courthouse is located here, as is much of the county government.

  9. List of counties in Mississippi - Wikipedia

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    Elections are limited to once every four years. Any new county must be at least 400 square miles (1,000 km 2), with no existing county reduced below that size. [2] The county governing body, known as the Board of Supervisors, is located under the judicial branch of state government as established in the 1817 Mississippi Constitution. [3]

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