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Explore 4 published pages tagged with Newton Knight, grouped automatically from article text, entity focus, and recurring topical signals.
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The Free State of Jones names a famed anti-Confederate uprising in Jones County, Mississippi, during the American Civil War and its long afterlife in memory, law, and local iden...
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Free State of Jones is broadly true as a historical event in Jones County, Mississippi, where Newton Knight and a mixed group of resisters evaded Confederate authority from roug...
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The Free State of Jones County refers to a story from the American Civil War in which parts of Jones County, Mississippi, became a notable zone of anti-Confederate resistance. O...
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The Free State of Jones refers to an area in southern Mississippi where resistance to the Confederacy persisted, most prominently led by Newton Knight and others who opposed Con...
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