A shot in the moonlight : how a freed slave and a Confederate soldier fought for justice in the Jim Crow south
(2021)
By:
Montgomery, Ben
Nonfiction
Book
Call Numbers:
976.904/MONTGOMERY,B
Availability
Details
PUBLISHED
New York : Little, Brown Spark, 2021
EDITION
First edition
DESCRIPTION
xvii, 285 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm
ISBN/ISSN
9780316535540, 0316535540 :, 0316535540, 9780316535540
LANGUAGE
English
NOTES
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