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Old September 25th, 2016 #1
Tony Houseman
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Thumbs down Free State of Jones

I saw a trailer on TV today for this shit.

Free State of Jones is a 2016 American war film inspired by the life of Newton Knight and his armed rebellion against the Confederacy in Jones County, Mississippi, during the American Civil War. Written and directed by Gary Ross, the film stars Matthew McConaughey, Gugu Mbatha-Raw, Mahershala Ali and Keri Russell.

It was released in the United States by STX Entertainment on June 24, 2016 and received mixed reviews from critics. The film was a box office bomb, grossing just $21 million against its $50 million budget.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Free_S...f_Jones_(film)

It includes miscegenation as Newton Knight has a child by a black woman.
 
Old September 26th, 2016 #2
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The truth about Newton Knight is even worse as children from his and his wife's previous relationships married each other. His son married her daughter and his daughter married her son. There were 3 interracial couples in the same family. That was one fucked up family.

By the mid-1870s, Knight had separated from his wife, Serena. He married Rachel, a freedwoman formerly held as a slave by his grandfather.[2] In this period, Knight's grown son, Mat (from his first wife), married Rachel's grown daughter, Fannie, from a previous union. Knight's daughter, Molly, married Rachel's son, Jeff, making three interracial families in the community.[1]:2 Newton and Rachel Knight had several children before her death in 1889.[2]

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