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By the mid-1870s, Knight had separated from his wife, Serena. He married Rachel, a freedwoman formerly held as an enslaved person by his grandfather. [1] In this period, Knight's grown son, Mat (from his first wife), married Rachel's grown daughter, Fannie, from a previous union.
Rachel Knight (1840 - February 11, 1889) was the African-American common-law wife to Confederate army deserter Newton Knight (1829-1922). In 1881 she was baptized into the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. She was depicted by Gugu Mbatha-Raw in Gary Ross' 2016 feature film Free State of Jones.
15 lut 2022 · An enslaved woman in Mississippi, Rachel Knight joined forces with a Confederate deserter named Newton Knight — and later became his common-law wife. She later became one of the first Black women to own land in Mississippi.
28 kwi 2022 · Did Newton Knight and his wife Serena ever divorce? No. While investigating the Free State of Jones true story, we learned that Serena and Newton never divorced. After they separated, Newton entered into a controversial common law marriage with Rachel, a former slave.
15 kwi 2024 · Newton Knight was married three times in his life. His first wife was Serena Turner, whom he married in 1858. They had three children together: Mary Elizabeth, James Newton, and Matilda Victoria. However, their marriage was short-lived, and they divorced in 1861.
10 maj 2016 · Did Newton Knight and his wife Serena ever divorce? No. While investigating the Free State of Jones true story, we learned that Serena and Newton never divorced. After they separated, Newton entered into a controversial common law marriage with Rachel, a former slave.
After the Civil War, Knight took up with his grandfather’s former slave Rachel; they had five children together. Knight also fathered nine children with his white wife, Serena, and the two...
