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Bibliographic Information
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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
First edition.
- Author
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Montgomery, Ben.
- Publisher:
- Little, Brown Spark,
- Pub date:
- 2021.
- Pages:
- xvii, 285 pages :
- ISBN:
- 9780316535540
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Item info:
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1 copy available in
Adult nonfiction shelves.
1 copy total in all locations.
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976.9735 MON
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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
First edition.
Montgomery, Ben.
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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
First edition.
Montgomery, Ben.
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Personal Author:
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Montgomery, Ben.
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Title:
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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.
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Edition:
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First edition.
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Physical description:
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xvii, 285 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm
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Contents:
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The whites would be bent on revenge -- "That protection which the law refuses to give" -- "They treated him more than bad and myself all so" -- "The people say that Dinning was a worthless Negro" -- "We turned and shot back at the house" -- To defend ourselves -- "There was a good many holes" -- "A bullet came through my hair" -- Son of the South -- A bad man -- "The praiseworthy act of killing" -- "May the Lord protect us, or the Devil take us" -- "I will never come back to Kentucky" -- Indiana -- "Mass of blood and bones" -- The true situation -- "A Negro's life is a very cheap thing" -- Derby Day -- "There was a great rejoicing in Hell this morning" -- "The outcome was regarded as sensational" -- Squat and fire -- "I want to die in the old blue grass" -- "Some of this falls down to us".
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Summary:
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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.
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Personal subject:
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Dinning, George.
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Personal subject:
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Young, Bennett Henderson, 1843-1919.
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Subject term:
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African Americans--Crimes against--Kentucky--Simpson County--History.
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Subject term:
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Trials--Kentucky--Simpson County--History.
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Subject term:
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Freedmen--Kentucky.
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Geographic term:
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Kentucky--Race relations--History.