RACHEL KNIGHT BY SONDRA YVONNE BIVINS Rachel Knight was about sixteen years old when John “Jackie” Knight of Covington County, MS, came into possession of her in the spring of 1856. Rachel […]
Part 2: Yvonne Bivins on the History of Rachel Knight
Part 1: Yvonne Bivins on the History of Rachel Knight
Note from Vikki Bynum, Moderator: Rachel Knight was a central figure in the Free State of Jones. As collaborator to Newt Knight and the Knight Company, Mississippi’s most notorious band of Civil […]
Part Three: Review of Sally Jenkins and John Stauffer, State of Jones
by Victoria E. Bynum, author of The Free State of Jones: Mississippi’s Longest Civil War (University of North Carolina Press, 2001). The following is the third and final installment of my review […]
Part One: Review of Sally Jenkins and John Stauffer, The State of Jones
By Victoria E. Bynum, author of The Free State of Jones (University of North Carolina Press, 2001) This is the first installment of a three-part review. For part two, click here; for […]
Race and the “One Drop Rule” in the Post-Reconstruction South
By Vikki Bynum Many people, perhaps most, think of “race” as an objective reality. Historically, however, racial categorization has been unstable, contradictory, and arbitrary. Consider the term “passing.” Most of us immediately […]
An American Family: The Multiracial Knight Community
By Vikki Bynum After posting my blog about Serena Knight, I returned to my research and photo files. There, I located this photograph of the Jeffrey and Ella Knight family, which is particularly revealing about […]
Renegade South 