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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 / Ben Montgomery.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Montgomery, Ben, author.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Dinning, George, approximately 1857-1930.
- Dinning, George.
- Young, Bennett H. (Bennett Henderson), 1843-1919.
- Young, Bennett H.
- African Americans--Crimes against--History--Kentucky--Simpson County.
- African Americans.
- African Americans--Crimes against.
- History.
- Freed persons.
- Race relations.
- Trials.
- Kentucky.
- Kentucky--Simpson County.
- Trials--Kentucky--Simpson County--History.
- Kentucky--Race relations--History.
- Freed persons--Kentucky.
- Genre:
- History.
- Biographies.
- Physical Description:
- xvii, 285 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm
- Edition:
- First edition.
- Place of Publication:
- New York : Little, Brown Spark, 2021.
- Summary:
- A true tale of justice in the Jim Crow south relates the story of George Dinning, a freed slave who was wrongfully convicted of murder after defending himself against a white mob and later won damages against them in court with the help of a Confederate war hero-turned-lawyer.
- Contents:
- Chapter 1 The Whites Would Be Bent on Revenge p. 3
- Chapter 2 "That Protection Which the Law Refuses to Give" p. 22
- Chapter 3 "They Treated Him More Than Bad and Myself All So" p. 39
- Chapter 4 "The People Say That Dinning Was a Worthless Negro" p. 45
- Chapter 5 "We Turned and Shot Back at the House" p. 56
- Chapter 6 To Defend Ourselves p. 72
- Chapter 7 "There Was a Good Many Holes" p. 86
- Chapter 8 "A Bullet Came Through My Hair" p. 102
- Chapter 9 Son of the South p. 115
- Chapter 10 A Bad Man p. 129
- Chapter 11 "The Praiseworthy Act of Killing" p. 157
- Chapter 12 "May the Lord Protect Us, Or the Devil Take Us" p. 165
- Chapter 13 "I Will Never Come Back to Kentucky" p. 183
- Chapter 14 Indiana p. 199
- Chapter 15 "Mass of Blood and Bones" p. 201
- Chapter 16 The True Situation p. 210
- Chapter 17 "A Negro's Life is a Very Cheap Thing" p. 221
- Chapter 18 Derby Day p. 227
- Chapter 19 "There Was a Great Rejoicing in Hell This Morning" p. 236
- Chapter 20 "The Outcome Is Regarded as Sensational" p. 241
- Chapter 21 Squat and Fire p. 247
- Chapter 22 "I Want to Die in the Old Blue Grass" p. 251
- Chapter 23 "Some of This Falls Down to Us" p. 259.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 269-272) and index.
- ISBN:
- 9780316535540
- 0316535540
- OCLC:
- 1153635279
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