Download The Free State of Jones: Mississippi's Longest Civil War AudioBook Free
Professional Mahershala Ali (House of Cards, The Cravings for food Video games: Mockingjay) carries out the gripping story of an armed group of Confederate deserters and slaves moving into a mixed-race community who rose against the Confederate Cavalry in 1863 to form their own republic, free from slavery, in what is now the state of Mississippi. The community they created - and the ambiguous racial identification of the descendants - confounded the rules of the segregated South well in to the 20th hundred years. In bridging the space between the legendary and the true Free Point out of Jones, writer Victoria Bynum unwraps the story - what was told, what was embellished, and what was left out.
