The latest episode is an epic by director Gary Ross, “Free State of Jones,” starring Matthew McConaughey as the film’s hero, Newt Knight. The county was known as the Free State of Jones, and some say it actually seceded from the Confederacy. For the two of them, the Knight family saga has continued into the 20th century and beyond. He was the great grandson who was embattled in a miscegenation trial in 1940s Mississippi. He said they had a password, and if you got it wrong, they’d kill you. This story is a selection from the March issue of Smithsonian magazine. Banding together with other small farmers and local slaves, Knight launched an uprising that led Jones County, Mississippi to secede from the Confederacy, creating a Free State of Jones. Advertising Notice ), (From the collection of Earle Knight / Courtesy of Victoria Bynum), (Herman Welborn Collection / Courtesy of Martha Doris Welborn). The first thing he did was take a canoe trip down the Leaf River, to get a feel for the area. He wanted to meet me at Jitters Coffeehouse & Bookstore in Laurel, so he could show me an old map on the wall. 18th Annual Photo Contest Winners and Finalists Announced! 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. The old county seat, and ground zero for the Free State of Jones, is Ellisville, now a pleasant, leafy town of 4,500 people. You must be a registered user to use the IMDb rating plugin. He kept no diary and gave only one interview near the end of his life, to a New Orleans journalist named Meigs Frost. “They were making an effort to be mustered into the U.S. Service.” Indeed, several of the Jones County Scouts later succeeded in joining the Union Army in New Orleans. Jasper Collins echoed many non-slaveholders across the South when he said, “This law...makes it a rich man’s war and a poor man’s fight.”, Returning home, they found their wives struggling to keep up the farms and feed the children. Nevertheless, Ross and McConaughey spent a lot of time in Jones County, persuading many county residents to appear in the film. His great-grandfather had been Cap’n Newt Knight, who deserted the Confederate Army and set up “The Free State of Jones” in Jones County. The men face off against the Union army, leading to a very bloody fight. Definitely not an average or sub-par movie — the subject matter alone puts it ahead of so many other films.At times I questioned the casting on some of the supporting roles, but that may be Hollywood conditioning thing, and on reflection this cast probably showed what people were like back in that day.After the movie I read up on the Davis Knight story. “He is like a god, and I went into his office, and I said, ‘My name’s Gary Ross, I did Seabiscuit.’ I asked him a bunch of questions about Reconstruction, and all he did was give me a reading list. “They all have separate family reunions,” said Blaylock. A disillusioned Confederate army deserter returns to Mississippi and leads a militia of fellow deserters and women in an uprising against the corrupt local Confederate government. In the spring of 1864, the Knight Company overthrew the Confederate authorities in Jones County and raised the United States flag over the county courthouse in Ellisville. “They keep to themselves over there,” says Gavin, striding back toward his house, where supplies of canned food and muscadine wine are stored up for the onset of Armageddon. Banding together with other small farmers and local slaves, Knight launched an uprising that led Jones County, Mississippi to secede from the Confederacy, creating a Free State of Jones. In March 1864, Lt. Gen. Leonidas Polk informed Jefferson Davis, the president of the Confederacy, that Jones County was in “open rebellion” and that guerrilla fighters were “proclaiming themselves ‘Southern Yankees.’” They had crippled the tax collection system, seized and redistributed Confederate supplies, and killed and driven out Confederate officials and loyalists, not just in Jones County but all over southeast Mississippi. 37, 73, 109. Read Less. During the Civil War, the Free State of Jones was established by a man named Newton Knight, who did one of the most unthinkable things a white southern man at that time could do – took on the Confederacy, and won. 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. “In 1875, he accepts a commission in what was essentially an all-black regiment,” says Ross. Driving toward the Jones County line, I passed a sign to Hot Coffee—a town, not a beverage—and drove on through rolling cattle pastures and short, new-growth pine trees. Free State of Jones “A lot of people find it easier to forgive Newt for fighting Confederates than mixing blood.”. “So they got the county renamed after Jefferson Davis, and Ellisville after Robert E. Lee. Joseph Hosey took me to Newt’s granddaughter’s cabin, where some say that he suffered a fatal heart attack while dancing on the porch. “Down here, that’s like naming your son Adolf Hitler Collins,” said Moulds. Several of the Knight company were mangled by the dogs, and at least ten were hanged, but Lowry couldn’t catch Knight or the core group. 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. The trial was a study in Mississippian absurdity, paradox, contradiction and racial obsessiveness. “That’s a huge change. Less than a decade after Mississippi became the country's 20th state, settlers organized this area of 700 sq mi (1,800 km ) of pine forests and swamps for a new county in 1826. “This was before Lincoln and 12 Years a Slave, and it was very hard to get this sort of a drama made. Soon afterward, there was a mass meeting of deserters from four Piney Woods counties. “And ol’ Newt was skinny-dipping in the wrong pool.”. For this cause alone we have been treated as savages instead of freeman by the rebel authorities. Kenny Wells, a prospector desperate for a lucky break, teams up with a similarly eager geologist and sets off on a journey to find gold in the uncharted jungle of Indonesia. “They were Union soldiers from principle,” Maj. Joel E. Welborn, their former commanding officer in the Seventh Mississippi, later recalled. A medium-scale Civil War-era epic whose story's historical significance reaches into the current epoch, Gary Ross's "Free State of Jones" rumbles on the importance of its narrative, the strength of its performances, and the richness of its details. “I didn’t realize it was going to be two years of research before I began writing the screenplay.”. Ross read those books too, and went back again with burning questions. “We have get-togethers in Jones County, and I imagine we always will,” he says. It’s a very interesting, real and complicated place.”, On the website of Jones County Rosin Heels, the local chapter of the Sons of the Confederate Veterans, an announcement warned that the film will portray Newt Knight as a civil rights activist and a hero. “I’m not a racist, OK, but I am a segregationist,” he said. The Black Knights are descended from Newt’s cousin Dan, who had children with one of his slaves. “He was a Primitive Baptist who didn’t drink, didn’t cuss, doted on children and could reload and fire a double-barreled, muzzle-loading shotgun faster than anyone else around,” said Moulds. “I’m proud to be descended from Newt and Rachel. Details below. Link your DIRECTV account to Movies Anywhere to enjoy your digital collection in one place. 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. Being in the film, acting and interacting with Matthew McConaughey, was a profound and moving experience, but not because of the actor’s fame. For me the movie's strengths far outweighed its weaknesses. In bridging the gap between the legendary and the real Free State of Jones, she shows how the legend reveals a great deal about the South's transition from slavery to segregation. He was 1/8 African American, looked white (in the movie) and married a white woman; a crime back in the day in Mississippi. Some scholars think he was pressed back into service for the Siege of Vicksburg, but there’s no solid evidence that he was there. Reaching higher ground, Gavin points across the swamp to various local landmarks. We have to tell our young people, do not date in the Soso area. I’m still reading history books all the time. Cox, an animated 71-year-old radio and television announcer with a long white beard, welcomed me into a small office crammed with video equipment and Confederate memorabilia. “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. “And I’ve grown to love Mississippi absolutely. “Newt didn’t give a damn. Victoria Bynum traces the origins and legacy of the Jones County uprising from the American Revolution to the modern civil rights movement. Newt Knight gives me something in my heritage, as a white Southerner, that I can feel proud about. 22.5 — “Letter from Mississippi,” Mobile Daily Advertiser and Register , May 6, 1864. 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. Free State of Jones 2016 | R | 2h 19m | Military Dramas A Mississippi farmer turns outlaw as he leads a ragtag band of fellow Civil War deserters and escaped slaves in a rebellion against the Confederacy. In early 1863, Knight was captured for desertion and possibly tortured. Use the HTML below. Three months later, the Confederacy fell. “It was illegal for blacks and whites to be buried in the same cemetery,” says Hosey. “Free State of Jones” begins on the battlefield, with a flurry of the kind of immersive combat action that has long been a staple of American movies. It’s part of the culture here. Free shipping for many products! 2016 139 min NR (Not Rated) Military/War, Drama, Biography, History, Action/Adventure Feature Film. I’m here in Jones County, Mississippi, to breathe in the historical vapors left by Newton Knight, a poor white farmer who led an extraordinary rebellion during the Civil War. 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. Between late 1863 and mid-1864, an armed band of Confederate deserters battled Confederate cavalry in the Piney Woods region of Jones County, Mississippi. When the band captures a Confederate prisoner, tensions mount and the true meaning of ... See full summary ». All I can tell you is that I did not know the story, and there were some moments where it fumbles, but I kept up with it just fine. Wow! A suicidal American befriends a Japanese man lost in a forest near Mt. This, more than anything, explains its widespread disloyalty to the Confederacy, but there was also a surly, clannish independent spirit, and in Newt Knight, an extraordinarily steadfast and skillful leader. #FreeStateOfJones - now available on Digital HD, Blu-Ray and DVD. “I love the Leaf River and the whole area,” says Ross. Hmm.It goes to show you how much times have changed: now days in Mississippi Batman can marry Superman, dogs can marry cats, and democrats can marry republicans. “His job was to defend the rights of freed African-Americans in one of Mississippi’s bloodiest elections. WARNING: Spoilers. For simplification, she said that there were three basic groups. He sounded slightly impatient, then said, “OK, I’m a history guy and a fourth-generation guy. On the county line, I was half-expecting a sign reading “Welcome to the Free State of Jones” or “Home of Newton Knight,” but the Confederacy is now revered by some whites in the area, and the chamber of commerce had opted for a less controversial slogan: “Now This Is Living!” Most of Jones County is rural, low- or modest-income; roughly 70 percent of the population is white. Want to share IMDb's rating on your own site? Ross was instantly intrigued, both by the character and the revelation of Unionism in Mississippi, the most deeply Southern state of all. In Knight’s defiance of both the Confederate Army and the deepest taboos of Southern culture McConaughey sees an uncompromising and deeply moral leader. Downtown has some old brick buildings with wrought-iron balconies. The receptionist led me into a small examining room and closed both its doors. They organized themselves into a company called the Jones County Scouts and unanimously elected Knight as their captain. Banding together with other small farmers and … All rights reserved. He was hired by the Reconstruction government to free black children from white masters who were refusing to emancipate them. At first I mistook him for a preacher, but he’s a retired electronic engineer who writes self-published novels about the rapture and apocalypse. 28 talking about this. On the night of October 5, Major McLemore was staying at his friend Amos Deason’s mansion in Ellisville, when someone—almost certainly Newt Knight—burst in and shot him to death. Watch the full movie online. 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 former Confederates violently took back control of the state and implemented a kind of second slavery for African-Americans. There are a few problems with the accuracy of the Free State of Jones, but they’re mostly forgivable. Calling themselves the Knight Company after their captain, Newton Knight, they set up headquarters in the swamps of the Leaf River, where, legend has it, they declared the Free State of Jones. Who knew that there was this sub-war going on in the middle of the Civil War, or about this Lincoln-esque southern guy willing to fight the good fight? Rated R for brutal battle scenes and disturbing graphic images, Netflix Added 74 New Movies And 31 New TV Shows This Week, Netflix Added 45 New Movies/TV Shows Today, Netflix in October: Here’s Everything Coming and Going (Video), Amazon’s Black Employee Network Recommended Watching, Everything Coming to Netflix in October 2020, Most Anticipated Film: Summer 2016 Edition. Even in death, he defied them.”. I tell people this movie is my academic midlife crisis.”, In Hollywood, he says, the executives were extremely supportive of his research, and the script that he finally wrestled out of it, but they balked at financing the film. Title: “Even as an old man, if someone rubbed him the wrong way, he’d have a knife at their throat in a heartbeat. There was a phase during early Reconstruction when blacks could vote, and black officials were elected for the first time. We didn’t all go along with it.”. (At the urging of Ross, Stauffer and co-author Sally Jenkins published their own book on the Jones County rebellion, in 2009.) The movie stars Matthew McConaughey as Newton Knight. “A lot of older people see Newt as a traitor and a reprobate, and they don’t understand why anyone would want to make a movie about him. All Knights are hardworking and very capable.”. “We’ve come to terms with who we are,” says Blaylock. It made me really wish my grandfather was still alive, because we were always saying someone should make a movie about Newt.” Hosey and the other actors in the Knight Company bonded closely during the shoot and still refer to themselves as the Knight Company. The story of teenager Richard Wershe Jr., who became an undercover informant for the FBI during the 1980s and was ultimately arrested for drug-trafficking and sentenced to life in prison. The Free State of Jones: Mississippi’s Longest Civil War (Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2001) pp. They vowed to resist capture, defy tax collectors, defend each other’s homes and farms, and do what they could to aid the Union. This FAQ is empty. So I went and did Hunger Games, but always keeping an eye on this. Free State of Jones. Get the best of Smithsonian magazine by email. the Fair Knights or Knight Negroes) are descended from Newt and Rachel. They fought their last skirmish at Sal’s Battery, also spelled Sallsbattery, on January 10, 1865, fighting off a combined force of cavalry and infantry. And they won’t use the word ‘black.’”, His current crop of students, on the other hand, are “fired up” about Newt and the movie. But the sacred rite of hunting season was underway, and the landowner didn’t want visitors disturbing the deer in the area. Knight also fathered nine children with his white wife, Serena, and the two families lived in different houses on the same 160-acre farm. View production, box office, & company info. https://www.smithsonianmag.com/history/true-story-free-state-jones-180958111 Very believable. All he had so far was the credits (Executive Producer Carl Ford) and the introductory banjo music. Much as Ross wanted to shoot the movie in Jones County, there were irresistible tax incentives to film across the border in Louisiana, and some breathtaking cypress swamps where various cast members were infested with the tiny mites known as chiggers. But the leading scholar of the Knight-led rebellion, Victoria Bynum, author of The Free State of Jones, points out that Knight had enlisted, under no threat of conscription, a few months after the war began, in July 1861. |, (© 2015 STX Productions, LLC. Sal was the name of Newt’s shotgun, and originally it was Sal’s Battery, but it got corrupted over the years.”, We reach a small promontory surrounded on three sides by a swampy, beaver-dammed lake, and concealed by 12-foot-high cattails and reeds. They were disgusted and angry about the recently passed “Twenty Negro Law,” which exempted one white male for every 20 slaves owned on a plantation, from serving in the Confederate Army. We don’t have any...problems. The following month, Confederate Maj. Amos McLemore arrived in Ellisville and began hunting them down with soldiers and hounds. But Mississippi is nothing if not layered and contradictory, and this small, rural county has also produced some wonderful creative and artistic talents, including Parker Posey, the indie-film queen, the novelist Jonathan Odell, the pop singer and gay astronaut Lance Bass, and Mark Landis, the schizophrenic art forger and prankster, who donated fraudulent masterpieces to major American art museums for nearly 30 years before he was caught. I’m some Hollywood guy, you know, and he wanted to see if I could do the work.”, Ross worked his way slowly and carefully through the books, and went back with more questions. The grand old columned courthouse has a Confederate monument next to it, and no mention of the anti-Confederate rebellion that took place here. Add the first question. The White Negro line was complicated further by Georgeanne, Rachel’s daughter by another white man. His most recent book is The Deepest South of All: True Stories from Natchez, Mississippi. “It led me on a deep dive to understand more and more about him and the fact that the South wasn’t monolithic during the Civil War,” says Ross, speaking on the phone from New York. Then he plants his staff on the ground and turns to face me directly. With the movie coming out, they’re at it harder than ever.”. I drove past many small chicken farms, a large modern factory making transformers and computers, and innumerable Baptist churches. 90 of 104 people found this review helpful. “It makes it relevant today. Dorothy Knight Marsh and Florence Knight Blaylock are the great-granddaughters of Newt and Rachel. Once again disenfranchised, and terrorized by the Klan, they were exploited through sharecropping and legally segregated. They had seen this many times before. The worst of it comes from within their extended family. 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. Unable to find marriage partners in the community, they started marrying their white cousins instead, with Newt’s encouragement. This time Foner actually looked at him and said, “Not bad. Have to wonder why they didn't prosecute the white wife. It was such a heady experience to learn for learning’s sake, for the first time, rather than to generate a screenplay. In the new film "Free State of Jones," Matthew McConaughey plays Confederate soldier Newton Knight, and depending on whom you ask, Knight was either a hero or a traitor. ”, 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. Banding together with other small farmers and local slaves, Knight launched an uprising that led Jones County, Mississippi to secede from the Confederacy, creating a Free State of Jones. “I’m not that guy.” (Turns out he is Doug Jefcoat, without the “e.”), He laughed uproariously, then settled down and gave me his thoughts. “He said they had a gate in the reeds that a man on horseback could ride through. He was carrying two huge, leather-bound volumes of his family genealogy. So many men tried so hard to kill him that perhaps his most remarkable achievement was to reach old age. The script was not full of period clichés or overly polish, things I appreciated in a movie like Tombstone, but could have been a distraction in Free State which fortunately kept it real.Matthew McConaughey was excellent in the lead as the gritty Newton Knight. A large, friendly, charismatic man with unruly side-parted hair, he was wearing alligator-skin cowboy boots and a fishing shirt. 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