A shot in the moonlight : how a freed slave and a Confederate soldier fought for justice in the Jim Crow South
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New York : Little Brown Spark, 2021.
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Lamar Public Library (C426) - NONFICTION
976.9 MONTGO BEN
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Published
New York : Little Brown Spark, 2021.
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Book
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304 pages ; 23 cm.
Language
English
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After moonrise on the cold night of January 21, 1897, a mob of twenty-five white men gathered in a patch of woods near Big Road in southwestern Simpson County, Kentucky. Half carried rifles and shotguns, and a few tucked pistols in their pants. Their target was George Dinning, a freed slave who'd farmed peacefully in the area for 14 years, and who had been wrongfully accused of stealing livestock from a neighboring farm. When the mob began firing through the doors and windows of Dinning's home, he fired back in self-defense, shooting and killing the son of a wealthy Kentucky family. So began one of the strangest legal episodes in American history ́one that ended with Dinning becoming the first Black man in America to win damages after a wrongful murder conviction. Drawing on a wealth of never-before-published material, bestselling author and Pulitzer Prize finalist Ben Montgomery resurrects this dramatic but largely forgotten story, and the unusual convergence of characters ́among them a Confederate war hero-turned-lawyer named Bennett H. Young, Kentucky governor William O'Connell Bradley, and George Dinning himself ́that allowed this unlikely story of justice to unfold in a time and place where justice was all too rare.
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APA Citation, 7th Edition (style guide)
Montgomery, B. (2021). A shot in the moonlight: how a freed slave and a Confederate soldier fought for justice in the Jim Crow South . Little Brown Spark.
Chicago / Turabian - Author Date Citation, 17th Edition (style guide)Montgomery, Ben. 2021. A Shot in the Moonlight: How a Freed Slave and a Confederate Soldier Fought for Justice in the Jim Crow South. Little Brown Spark.
Chicago / Turabian - Humanities (Notes and Bibliography) Citation, 17th Edition (style guide)Montgomery, Ben. A Shot in the Moonlight: How a Freed Slave and a Confederate Soldier Fought for Justice in the Jim Crow South Little Brown Spark, 2021.
MLA Citation, 9th Edition (style guide)Montgomery, Ben. A Shot in the Moonlight: How a Freed Slave and a Confederate Soldier Fought for Justice in the Jim Crow South Little Brown Spark, 2021.
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