An edition of Shot in the Moonlight (2021)
Shot in the Moonlight
How a Freed Slave and a Confederate Soldier Fought for Justice in the Jim Crow South
By Ben Montgomery
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Publish Date
2021
Publisher
Little Brown & Company,Little, Brown Spark
Language
eng
Pages
304
Description:
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.