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A Shot in the Moonlight
- How a Freed Slave and a Confederate Soldier Fought for Justice in the Jim Crow South
Engelsk Hardback

A Shot in the Moonlight

- How a Freed Slave and a Confederate Soldier Fought for Justice in the Jim Crow South
Engelsk Hardback

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The sensational true story of George Dinning, a freed slave, who in 1899 joined forces with a Confederate war hero in search of justice in the Jim Crow south. “Taut and tense. Inspiring and terrifying in its timelessness.”(Colson Whitehead, Pulitzer Prize-winning author of The Underground Railroad )Named a most anticipated book of 2021 by O, The Oprah MagazineNamed a "must-read" by the Chicago Review of BooksOne of CNN's most anticipated books of 2021 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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Sprog:
Engelsk
Sider:
304
ISBN-13:
9780316535540
Indbinding:
Hardback
Udgave:
ISBN-10:
0316535540
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Udg. Dato:
11 mar 2021
Længde:
32mm
Bredde:
243mm
Højde:
161mm
Forlag:
Little, Brown & Company
Oplagsdato:
11 mar 2021
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