Jones County opts for its own independence. He just walks away from the Confederate army and before long he's heading a movement back home seceding from the seceding Confederacy. The phrase "rich man's war,poor man's fight" never had more meaning than in the situation Knight finds himself in. After the battle of Corinth he learns that if one is rich enough to own slaves one is exempt from the fight because in this struggle for the rights of one to own another you have to leave some people behind lest the "property" start getting ideas. The Free State Of Jones tells the tale of Newton Knight a farmer from Mississippi who was at least a century ahead of his times in terms of economics and human rights.
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