Victoria Bynum is Distinguished Professor Emeritus of History, Texas State University, San Marcos. Her research focuses on Southern dissenters, including families that opposed secession and the Confederacy. Subjects include the guerrilla band headed by Newt Knight in Mississippi's "Free State of Jones"; the anti-slavery Wesleyan Methodist community of the North Carolina Quaker Belt; Southern women who defied the boundaries of Southern society; Southerners who crossed the color line socially and sexually; and African Americans who did not follow the dictates of Jim Crow.
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History, Social aspects, Social conditions, Unionists (United States Civil War), Influence, Politics and government, Reconstruction (U.S. history, 1865-1877), Biography, Confederate states of america, social conditions, Military deserters, Racially mixed people, Southern states, politics and government, Southern states, social conditions, United states, history, civil war, 1861-1865, influence, 19th century, Desertion, military, Deviant behavior, Female offenders, Mississippi Civil War, 1861-1865, Mississippi, biography, Mississippi, history, North Carolina, Race relations, Reconstruction (u.s. history, 1865-1877), Social aspects of Reconstruction (U.S. history, 1865-1877)Places
United States, Confederate States of America, Southern States, Jones County, Jones County (Miss.), Mississippi, North CarolinaPeople
Knight familyID Numbers
- OLID: OL770762A
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