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Free State of Jones grossed $20.8 million in North America and $4.2 million in other territories for a worldwide total of $25 million, against a production budget of $50 million. [ 2 ] The film was released in the United States and Canada on June 24, 2016, alongside Independence Day: Resurgence and The Shallows and was projected to gross around ...
Newton Knight (November 10, 1829 – February 16, 1922) was an American farmer, soldier, and Southern Unionist in Mississippi, best known as the leader of the Knight Company, a band of Confederate Army deserters who resisted the Confederacy during the Civil War.
Her book "Free State of Jones" on the civil war history of Jones County, Mississippi was an inspiration for the 2016 film of the same name. [4] [5] Bynum sold the rights to the book to Universal Studios in 2007. [6]
The State of Jones: The Small Southern County that Seceded from the Confederacy, New York: Random House. ISBN 978-0-385-52593-0. Leverett, Rudy H. (1984, second printing 2009). Legend of the Free State of Jones. University Press of Mississippi. ISBN 0-87805-227-5, ISBN 978-0-87805-227-1. McLemore, Richard Aubrey.
Rachel Knight was born into slavery to parents named Abraham and Viney in 1840 in Georgia. [1] She was described as a 'Guinea Negro', "meaning she was racially mixed but did not look white nor was she light-skinned, but with 'nice hair' not kinky and shoulder length" similar to Australian aborigines. [2]
A fact from Free State of Jones (film) appeared on Wikipedia's Main Page in the Did you know column on 9 May 2015 (check views). The text of the entry was as follows:
Amos McLemore (August 23, 1823 – October 5, 1863) of Jones County, Mississippi, was a schoolteacher, Methodist Episcopal minister, merchant and Confederate States Army soldier. He was killed at Deason Home .
Jacob Seth Lofland (born July 30, 1996) [2] is an American actor best known for his role as Neckbone in the film Mud (2012) and for his role as Aris in Maze Runner: The Scorch Trials (2015) and Maze Runner: The Death Cure (2018).