Un film US qui semble passionnant (in english, sorry). A quand sur nos écrans ?
https://the-spark.net/np1015601.html
artza a écrit :Sortie dans l'hexagone le 14 septembre
Ce film est-il fondé sur des événements historiques?
Free State of Jones
On October 13, 1863, a band of deserters from Jones County and adjacent counties organized to protect the area from Confederate authorities and the crippling tax collections.[6] The company, led by Newton Knight, fought a recorded 14 skirmishes with Confederate forces. They also raided Paulding, capturing five wagonloads of corn that had been collected for tax from area farms, which they distributed back among the local population.[7] The company harassed Confederate officials. Deaths believed to be at their hands were reported in 1864 among numerous tax collectors, conscript officers, and other officials.[4]
The governor was informed by the Jones County court clerk that deserters had made tax collections in the county impossible.[8] By the spring of 1864, the Knight company had taken effective control from the Confederate government in the county.[4] The followers of Knight raised an American flag over the courthouse in Ellisville, and sent a letter to Union General William T. Sherman declaring Jones County's independence from the Confederacy.[4] In July 1864, the Natchez Courier reported that Jones County had seceded from the Confederacy.[9]
Scholars have disputed whether the county truly seceded, with most concluding it did not. While there have been numerous attempts to study Knight and his followers, the lack of documentation during and after the war has made him an elusive figure. The rebellion in Jones County has been variously characterized as consisting of local skirmishes to being a full-fledged war of independence. It assumed legendary status among some county residents and Civil War historians, culminating in the release of a 2016 feature film.
Post-war years
After the end of the war, Knight joined the Republican Party and was active during Reconstruction. He returned to live in Jasper County, in Soso, Mississippi. He separated from his first wife and in 1875 married Rachel, a former slave, and they had several mixed-race children together. In addition, some of her grown children and his from his first marriage married in turn, with their families forming the basis of a mixed-race community. Before 1870 and after 1880, interracial marriages were officially illegal, but numerous relationships occurred across the state.
Jones County had a history typical of most Mississippi counties after the war, with whites attempting to restore white supremacy by law and intimidation. The KKK and other insurgent groups, such as the Red Shirts, attacked and oppressed freedmen, with the latter group rising in power from 1874. As freedmen were a small minority, white Democrats regained power in the county, and later in the state legislature, bringing an end to Reconstruction. The legislature passed racial segregation laws and in 1890, the state passed a new constitution that effectively disfranchised most blacks, a situation lasting into the late 1960s
Zelda_Zbak a écrit : pour leur donner envie de lire "Les chemins de la liberté" (40 acres et une mule !)...
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