Being the holiday with family we decided to rent a couple of movies - so I went to Redbox online and picked out two ahead of time reserved in the box (pretty neat!) - Miles Ahead and Free State of Jones. We enjoyed them both...and a lighthearted movie about pledging that was on YouTube also fun! I looked up Free State of Jones on Smithsonian and found some history I was not aware of ... and Free State of Jones' comment "fighting war for cotton" was hauntingly similar of the "Fighting war for oil" (look up the 20 Negro rule - where owners did not have to fight if they owned 20 Negros or more - obviously meaning those with means did not have to fight). Some violence at the beginning. And the families of the Free State of Jones still exist today.. quite interesting.
http://www.smithsonianmag.com/history/true-story-free-state-jones-180958111/
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