"New York Times"-bestselling author Jenkins and distinguished Harvard professor 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.
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"New York Times"-bestselling author Jenkins and distinguished Harvard professor 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.
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New. 0767929462. B&W Photographs; 8.03 X 5.20 X 0.94 inches; 402 pages; Soft cover has a tan spine with black lettering. Pages are clean and tight. This is a NEW book. 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. Illustrated with 23 b/w pictures. Notes; bibliography; index.
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New in New jacket. No Flaws or Blemishes but minimal shelf handling; Still Gift Quality. 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.