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* HalfBreedDiscrimination: The issue at Davis Knight's trial is whether his great-great grandmother was Rachel or Serena Knight. Assuming the former, he would be "colored" under Mississippi state law and thus forbidden to marry a white women, as Rachel was mixed race. If the latter, he would be white and thus freed. The prosecutor {{lampshades}} how unusual this is, as generally it would be the father whose identity isn't clear. Eventually the Knight family Bible is uncovered, revealing that it was Rachel. David is therefore convicted (though it's later reversed on appeal). All this based on the "one drop" rule where ''anyone'' who had a black ancestor was subject to racist laws, even when (like him) they are fully white passing.
* KarmaHoudini: All of the Confederate officers and slave owners get off scot-free, having only to swear loyalty to the United States. Their former nemesis Lieutenant Barbour later becomes a judge, using this office to get former slaves into coerced "apprenticeships" that amount to slavery in all but name. Newt manages to buy Moses' son out of his.
* KarmaHoudini: All of the Confederate officers and slave owners get off scot-free, having only to swear loyalty to the United States. Their former nemesis Lieutenant Barbour later becomes a judge, using this office to get former slaves into coerced "apprenticeships" that amount to slavery in all but name. Newt manages to buy Moses' son out of his.
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* HalfBreedDiscrimination: The issue at Davis Knight's trial is whether his great-great grandmother was Rachel or Serena Knight. Assuming the former, he would be "colored" under Mississippi state law and thus forbidden to marry a white women, as Rachel was mixed race. If the latter, he would be white and thus freed. The prosecutor {{lampshades}} how unusual this is, as generally it would be the father whose identity isn't clear. Eventually the Knight family Bible is uncovered, revealing that it was Rachel. David is therefore convicted (though it's later reversed on appeal). All this based on the "one drop" rule where ''anyone'' who had a black ancestor was subject to racist laws, even when (like him) they are fully white passing.
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* InstantDeathBullet: People are seen immediately dropping and plopping down dead during a charge by the Confederates after the Union infantry open fire on them, even without [[BoomHeadshot getting shot through the brain]].
* KarmaHoudini: All of the Confederate officers and slave owners get off scot-free, having only to swear loyalty to the United States. Their former nemesis Lieutenant Barbour later becomes a judge, using this office to get former slaves into coerced "apprenticeships" that amount to slavery in all but name. Newt manages to buy Moses' son out of his.
* InstantDeathBullet: People are seen immediately dropping and plopping down dead during a charge by the Confederates after the Union infantry open fire on them, even without [[BoomHeadshot getting shot through the brain]].
* KarmaHoudini: All of the Confederate officers and slave owners get off scot-free, having only to swear loyalty to the United States. Their former nemesis Lieutenant Barbour later becomes a judge, using this office to get former slaves into coerced "apprenticeships" that amount to slavery in all but name. Newt manages to buy Moses' son out of his.
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* TheBadGuyWins: While the Free State of Jones holds off the Confederates, who lose the civil war, later the peace is lost, as ex-Confederates in the South use every possible means (legal or illegal) to disenfranchise the former slaves and retake power.
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* HalfBreedDiscrimination: The issue at Davis Knight's trial is whether his great-great grandmother was Rachel or Serena Knight. Assuming the former, he would be "colored" under Mississippi state law and thus forbidden to marry a white women, as Rachel was mixed race. If the latter, he would be white and thus freed. The prosecutor {{lampshades}} how unusual this is, as generally it would be the father whose identity isn't clear. Eventually the Knight family Bible is uncovered, revealing that it was Rachel. David is therefore convicted (though it's later reversed on appeal). All this based on the "one drop" rule where ''anyone'' who had a black ancestor was subject to racist laws, even when (like him) they are fully white passing.
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* MixedAncestry: Newt and Rachel's son Jason. Rachel herself is mixed race too. It's also the issue at Davis Knight's trial as to whether his great-great grandmother was Rachel or Serena Knight. Assuming the former, he would be "colored" under Mississippi state law and thus forbidden to marry a white women. If the latter, he would be white and thus freed. The prosecutor {{lampshades}} how unusual this is, as generally it would be the father whose identity isn't clear. Eventually the Knight family Bible is uncovered, revealing that it was Rachel.
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* RealMenLoveJesus: Newt and Moses both appear to be devout Christians, invoking God at numerous points (not unexpected for the time and region). Both of them are also badass resistance fighters against the CSA who lead the revolt in Jones County.
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* RealMenLoveJesus: Newt and Moses both appear to be devout Christians, invoking God at numerous points (not unexpected for the time and region).points. Both of them are also badass resistance fighters against the CSA who lead the revolt in Jones County.
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