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";s:4:"text";s:22544:"“This was before Lincoln and 12 Years a Slave, and it was very hard to get this sort of a drama made. It was released in the United States by STXfilms on June 24, 2016. Knight also fathered nine children with his white wife, Serena, and the two families lived in different houses on the same 160-acre farm. But the sacred rite of hunting season was underway, and the landowner didn’t want visitors disturbing the deer in the area. [3][4][5][6][7] The film is credited as being "based on the books The Free State of Jones by Victoria E. Bynum and The State of Jones by Sally Jenkins and John Stauffer."[4]. When secession fever swept across the South in 1860, Jones County was largely immune to it. Reviewer A. O. Scott called it "a neglected and fascinating chapter in American history" and said it used "the tools of Hollywood spectacle to restore a measure of clarity to our understanding of the war and its aftermath. After many decades of living in the outside world, they are back in Soso, Mississippi, dealing with prejudice from all directions. Neo-Confederate historians have denied the Scouts’ loyalty to the Union up and down, but it was accepted by local Confederates at the time. “I’m not a fast reader, nor am I an academic,” he says, “although I guess I’ve become an amateur one.” He apprenticed himself to some of the leading authorities in the field, including Harvard’s John Stauffer and Steven Hahn at the University of Pennsylvania. The White Negro line was complicated further by Georgeanne, Rachel’s daughter by another white man. Free State of Jones is a 2016 American historical war film inspired by the life of Newton Knight and his armed revolt against the Confederacy in Jones County, Mississippi, throughout the American Civil War. The website's critical consensus reads, "Free State of Jones has the noblest of intentions, but they aren't enough to make up for its stilted treatment of a fascinating real-life story. Then he started into Reconstruction. And he kept trying to marry out the color, so we would all keep getting lighter-skinned. Newton's disenchantment with the Confederacy grows after finding out that Confederate troops have been confiscating crops and livestock from his fellow farmers as "taxes" to support the war effort. Ellie Neuendorf was named as … The ex-Confederates, runaway slaves, and farmers of Jones County start a revolt against the Confederacy. Although he was against secession, Knight voluntarily enlisted in the Confederate Army once the war began. “When you grow up in the South, you hear all the time about your ‘heritage,’ like it’s the greatest thing there is,” he says. "[30] Scott also said, "...while Mr. Ross's story makes Newton unambiguously heroic, this is not yet another film about a white savior sacrificing himself on behalf of the darker-skinned oppressed. So I went and did Hunger Games, but always keeping an eye on this. It's safe to say Jones delivered his best performance of the year Monday, and it made all the difference. This time Foner actually looked at him and said, “Not bad. A Confederate colonel named William N. Brown reported that corrupt tax officials had “done more to demoralize Jones County than the whole Yankee Army.”. I ask him what he admires most about Knight. On Metacritic, the film has a score of 53 out of 100 based on reviews from 38 critics, indicating "mixed or average reviews". It’s part of the culture here. After surviving the 1862 Battle of Corinth and being told of the Twenty Negro Law that allows wealthy men to avoid being conscripted into military service, Newton Knight, a poor farmer from Jones County serving as a battlefield nurse in the Confederate army, deserts and returns home to his wife Serena after seeing his nephew Daniel get shot and killed. With two rat terriers trotting at his heels, and a long wooden staff in his hand, J.R. Gavin leads me through the woods to one of the old swamp hide-outs. I don’t know how much of that is true, but one of these days I’ll come here with a metal detector and see what I can find.”. Come to the animal hospital tomorrow.”. So Hosey drove up to the locked gate, and then swiped up the relevant photographs on his phone. During my final interview, across a brightly colored plastic table in the McDonald’s in Laurel, there were moments when my brain seized up altogether, and I would sit there stunned, unable to grasp what I was hearing. One of them is titled Sal Batree, after the place he wants to show me. Subscribe to Smithsonian magazine now for just $12, The Free State of Jones: Mississippi's Longest Civil War, The Deepest South of All: True Stories from Natchez, Mississippi, Dolphins Spotted in Venice's Grand Canal—for Real This Time, This High Schooler Invented Color-Changing Sutures to Detect Infection, A Very Angry Octopus Goes Viral After Lashing Out at an Australian Tourist, Thanks to a Genetic Mutation, These French Rabbits Prefer Handstands to Bunny Hops, Listening to Nature Gives You a Real Rocky Mountain High. ”, Matthew McConaughey thought the Free State of Jones script was the most exciting Civil War story he had ever read, and knew immediately that he wanted to play Newt Knight. He gave me ten minutes on his family tree, and when I interrupted to ask about the Rosin Heels and Newt Knight, he stopped, looked puzzled, and began to chuckle. We can only speculate about his reasons. “In the Lost Cause mythology, the South was united, and secession had nothing to do with slavery,” said Moulds. Jones can play linebacker and K-State has plenty of experience with using fast, undersized linebackers in this defensive system. Downtown has some old brick buildings with wrought-iron balconies. |, (© 2015 STX Productions, LLC. If you point out that Newt distributed food to starving people, and was known as the Robin Hood of the Piney Woods, they’ll tell you he married a black, like that trumps everything. I came to Jones County having read some good books about its history, and knowing very little about its present-day reality. Wirt Thompson reported that they were now a thousand strong and flying the U.S. flag over the Jones County courthouse—“they boast of fighting for the Union,” he added. “I guess that’s why he had three of them. “And ol’ Newt was skinny-dipping in the wrong pool.”. He was initially drawn to make the movie out of a desire to examine the Reconstruction era south, an era that, according to him, is poorly represented in film, quoting Gone with the Wind and The Birth of a Nation as examples of "the last movies that did it". All Knights are hardworking and very capable.”. Even more aggravating, the Confederate authorities had imposed an abusive, corrupt “tax in kind” system, by which they took what they wanted for the war effort— horses, hogs, chickens, corn, meat from the smokehouses, homespun cloth. This part of Mississippi was dubbed the Piney Woods, known for its poverty and lack of prospects. Privacy Statement (In 1951, one of them, Ethel Knight, published a vitriolic indictment of Newt as a traitor to the Confederacy.) “I didn’t realize it was going to be two years of research before I began writing the screenplay.”. Newt’s grave has an emblem of Sal, his beloved shotgun, and the legend, “He Lived For Others.” He’d given instructions that he should be buried here with Rachel. Then the writer inadvertently slips into the present tense: “He is actually a thief, murderer, adulterer and a deserter.”, Doug Jefcoate was listed as camp commander. "[24] Foner answered none of them, just gave him another reading list. With the movie coming out, they’re at it harder than ever.”. “I’m one of the few liberals you’re going to meet here, but I’m a Piney Woods liberal,” he said. Once again disenfranchised, and terrorized by the Klan, they were exploited through sharecropping and legally segregated. Ross talks about these scholars in a tone of worship and adulation, as if they’re rock stars or movie stars—and none more so than Eric Foner at Columbia, the dean of Reconstruction experts. Their cousin Davis Knight, who looked white and claimed to be white, was tried for the crime of miscegenation in 1948, after marrying a white woman. Free State of Jones ist ein US-amerikanischer Spielfilm aus dem Jahr 2016 über das Leben von Newton Knight um die Zeit des Sezessionskriegs.Er basiert auf wahren Begebenheiten in Jones County (Mississippi) von 1862 bis 1876. We don’t have any...problems. “I remember walking out of his office, across the steps of Columbia library, almost buoyant. The White Knights are descended from Newt and Serena, are often pro-Confederate, and proud of their pure white bloodlines. Victoria Bynum traces the origins and legacy of the Jones County uprising from the American Revolution to the modern civil rights movement. He waged guerrilla war against the Confederacy and declared loyalty to the Union. The grand old columned courthouse has a Confederate monument next to it, and no mention of the anti-Confederate rebellion that took place here. Polk ordered two battle-hardened regiments into southeast Mississippi, under the command of Piney Woods native Col. Robert Lowry. ), (From the collection of Earle Knight / Courtesy of Victoria Bynum), (Herman Welborn Collection / Courtesy of Martha Doris Welborn). In early 1863, Knight was captured for desertion and possibly tortured. Written and directed by Gary Ross, the film stars Matthew McConaughey, Gugu Mbatha-Raw, Mahershala Ali, and Keri Russell. The old county seat, and ground zero for the Free State of Jones, is Ellisville, now a pleasant, leafy town of 4,500 people. or I drove past many small chicken farms, a large modern factory making transformers and computers, and innumerable Baptist churches. You ought to think about studying this.”, “It was the greatest compliment a person could have given me,” says Ross. This story is a selection from the March issue of Smithsonian magazine. He was 84 years old. After Rachel died, Newt and Georgeanne had children. The film was pushed back from its original release date of March 11, 2016, to May 13 and finally June 24, 2016. “In 1875, he accepts a commission in what was essentially an all-black regiment,” says Ross. Then he plants his staff on the ground and turns to face me directly. “The third act is what makes this story feel so alive,” says McConaughey. Joseph Hosey is a Jones County forester and wild mushroom harvester who was hired as an extra for the movie and ended up playing a core member of the Knight Company. Knight and his men, says Gavin, hooking away an enormous spider web with his staff and warning me to be careful of snakes, “had a number of different hide-outs. 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