A shot in the moonlight : how a freed slave and a Confederate soldier fought for justice in the Jim Crow south / Ben Montgomery.
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 had pistols tucked in their pants. Their target was George Dinning, a freed slave who'd farmed peacefully in the area for fourteen 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 the South to beat a lynch mob in court. Drawing on a trove of never-before-published material, 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 at a time and in a place where justice was all too rare.
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- ISBN: 9780316535540
- ISBN: 0316535540
- Physical Description: xvii, 285 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm
- Edition: First edition.
- Publisher: New York : Little, Brown Spark, 2021.
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Bibliography, etc. Note: | Includes bibliographical references (pages 269-272) and index. |
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