#NEWTON KNIGHT MOVIE#

They were producing vast amounts of cotton-the state’s most valuable crop and the most valuable crop in the nation. Fifty-five percent of the state’s population or 437,000 people were Unpaid Laborers in 1860. Mississippi had more Unpaid Laborers than any other state. Some did not want to leave the Union because things were just too good in Mississippi just the way they were. Some did not want to secede because they were patriots. Many did not want to secede from the Union. In Mississippi, many southern Unionists didn’t want war. Newton Knight was against slavery but all southern Unionists were not.

They had their own reasons for being against leaving the Union. Southern Unionists had their own reasons for being against the war. What? What? A southern Unionist? What is that? The term southern Unionist describes many white people that were against the Civil War and against their states leaving the United States to form a new country. Newton Knight was farmer, a soldier, and a southern Unionist. The story is based on the history of Jones County, Mississippi during the American Civil War and the period following the war. In fact, Albert was the only one of John’s children that did not inherit any slaves.

His grandfather John Knight owned a lot of slaves in Jones County but his father Albert did not. He lived in Jones County Mississippi during the American Civil War. It is about a real person named Newton Knight.

#NEWTON KNIGHT MOVIE#

The movie is fictional but many of the events in the movie are true. Free State of Jones is a new movie starring Matthew McConaughey and Gugu Mbatha-Raw.

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