This news is actually about a month old, but we just missed it when it initially broke.
Gugu Mbatha-Raw will star alongside Matthew McConaughey in the feature film "Free State of Jones," which is based on a true story of the relationship between Newton Knight (McConaughey) and a slave, Rachel (Mbatha-Raw), exploring the impact Rachel had on Knight’s life and the Civil War-set rebellion he led against the Confederacy.
There’s a book by author Victoria E. Bynum titled "The Free State of Jones: Mississippi’s Longest Civil War," which gives more detail on the story as follows: "Between late 1863 and mid-1864, an armed…
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