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Free State of Jones grossed $20.8 million in North America and $4.2 million in other territories for a worldwide total of $25 million, against a production budget of $50 million. [ 2 ] The film was released in the United States and Canada on June 24, 2016, alongside Independence Day: Resurgence and The Shallows and was projected to gross around ...
Dr. Rudy H. Leverett wrote The Legend of the Free State of Jones (University of Mississippi Press, 1984, reprinted 2009), the first 20th-century book-length academic study of events in Jones County before and during the Civil War.
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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.
Rachel Knight was born into slavery to parents named Abraham and Viney in 1840 in Georgia. [1] She was described as a 'Guinea Negro', "meaning she was racially mixed but did not look white nor was she light-skinned, but with 'nice hair' not kinky and shoulder length" similar to Australian aborigines. [2]
Newton Knight (Mississippi), leader of the Knight Company and one of the founders of the Free State of Jones. In the United States, Southern Unionists were white Southerners living in the Confederate States of America opposed to secession. Many fought for the Union during the Civil War.
A fact from Free State of Jones (film) appeared on Wikipedia's Main Page in the Did you know column on 9 May 2015 (check views).The text of the entry was as follows: Did you know... that the film The Free State of Jones is the story of Southern Unionist Newton Knight (played by Matthew McConaughey)?
In the fall of 1863, on special orders from General Bragg, Major Amos McLemore of the 27th was sent to Jones County, Mississippi to pursue Confederate deserters in the vicinity. McLemore and most of the 27th's Company B were from Jones County, which was becoming a center of anti-Confederate resistance by 1863.