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Book Review

Canada and the United States

Victoria E. Bynum. The Free State of Jones: Mississippi's Longest Civil War. (The Fred W. Morrison Series in Southern Studies.) Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press. 2001. Pp. xvi, 316. $29.95.

Victoria E. Bynum has a tangled tale to tell, and she tells it well. The legend of the "Free State of Jones" has long been subject to more mythmaking than analysis. The subtitle of Bynum's new book can only suggest the complexities involved in unraveling a story of conflict, betrayal, miscegenation, and denial. 1

Throughout this work, there is a powerful thread of antiauthoritarianism stretching back to the eighteenth-century Regulators and extending well into the twentieth century. Although class divisions often drive the analysis in this book, Bynum also argues for the importance of male honor and religious dissent in creating a pattern of restless migration and social division. Many of the earliest white settlers in Jones County descended from North Carolina families; by the 1790s, many of these families had moved to South Carolina and would soon be heading for the southwestern frontier. Like several scholars over the past two decades, Bynum emphasizes yeoman independence and women's ambivalence about this migration. . . .

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