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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 Hardcover - 2021

by Ben Montgomery

The little-known true story of freed slave George Dinning and Colonel BennettH. Young, a Confederate war hero, who in 1899 took on a Kentucky mob in courtafter Dinning was beaten for defending his farm against whites.


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  • Title A Shot in the Moonlight: How a Freed Slave and a Confederate Soldier Fought for Justice in the Jim Crow South
  • Author Ben Montgomery
  • Binding Hardcover
  • Pages 304
  • Volumes 1
  • Language ENG
  • Publisher Little, Brown Spark
  • Date 2021-01-26
  • Illustrated Yes
  • Features Bibliography, Illustrated, Index
  • ISBN 9780316535540 / 0316535540
  • Weight 1.1 lbs (0.50 kg)
  • Dimensions 9.5 x 6.5 x 1.1 in (24.13 x 16.51 x 2.79 cm)
  • Themes
    • Ethnic Orientation: African American
    • Topical: Black History
  • Library of Congress subjects African Americans - Crimes against -, Dinning, George
  • Dewey Decimal Code 976.904

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Citations

  • Booklist, 12/15/2020, Page 82
  • Publishers Weekly, 12/21/2020, Page 0

About the author

Ben Montgomery is a former enterprise reporter for the Tampa Bay Times and founder of the narrative journalism website Gangrey.com. In 2010, he was a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize in local reporting and won the Dart Award and Casey Medal for a series called "For Their Own Good," about abuse at Florida's oldest reform school. He lives in Tampa with his children. He is the author of The Man Who Walked Backward, The Leper Spy, and Grandma Gatewood's Walk.
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