The free state of Jones: Mississippi's longest civil war

Sacred Wars: Race and the ongoing battle over the Free State of Jones

The origins of Mississippi's Piney Woods people

Jones County's Carolina Connection: Class and race in revolutionary America

The Quest for Land: Yeoman republicans on the Southwestern frontier

Piney Woods patriarchs: Class relations and the growth of slavery

Antebellum life on the Leaf River: Gender, violence, and religious strife

Civil War, reconstruction, and the struggle for power

The inner Civil War: Birth of the Free State of Jones

The Free State turned upside down: Colonel Lowry's Confederate raid on Jones County

Reconstruction and redemption: The politics of race, class, and manhood in Jones County

Defiance and domination: "White Negroes" in the Piney Woods New South

Epilogue: The Free State of Jones revisited: Davis Knight's miscegenation trial

Afterword

Selected descendants of the Knight Family

Selected descendants of the Coleman Family

Selected descendants of the Welborn Family

Selected descendants of the Bynum Family

Selected descendants of the Collins Family

Selected descendants of the Sumrall Family

Selected descendants of the Welch Family

Selected descendants of the Valentine Family

The "White Negro" community, 1880-1920.