{"product_id":"a-shot-in-the-moonlight-how-a-freed-slave-and-a-confederate-soldier-fought-for-justice-in-the-jim-crow-south-9780316535540","title":"A Shot in the Moonlight: How a Freed Slave and a Confederate Soldier Fought for Justice in the Jim Crow South","description":"\u003cb\u003eThe sensational true story of George Dinning, a freed slave, who in 1899 joined forces with a Confederate war hero in search of justice in the Jim Crow south. \"Taut and tense. Inspiring and terrifying in its timelessness.\"(Colson Whitehead, Pulitzer Prize-winning author of \u003ci\u003eThe Underground Railroad \u003c\/i\u003e)\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e After moonrise on the cold night of January 21, 1897, a mob of twenty-five white men gathered in a patch of woods near Big Road in southwestern Simpson County, Kentucky. Half carried rifles and shotguns, and a few tucked pistols in their pants. Their target was George Dinning, a freed slave who'd farmed peacefully in the area for 14 years, and who had been wrongfully accused of stealing livestock from a neighboring farm. When the mob began firing through the doors and windows of Dinning's home, he fired back in self-defense, shooting and killing the son of a wealthy Kentucky family.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e So began one of the strangest legal episodes in American history -- one that ended with Dinning becoming the first Black man in America to win damages after a wrongful murder conviction.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e Drawing on a wealth of never-before-published material, bestselling author and Pulitzer Prize finalist Ben Montgomery resurrects this dramatic but largely forgotten story, and the unusual convergence of characters -- among them a Confederate war hero-turned-lawyer named Bennett H. Young, Kentucky governor William O'Connell Bradley, and George Dinning himself -- that allowed this unlikely story of justice to unfold in a time and place where justice was all too rare.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eBinding Type:\u003c\/b\u003e Hardcover\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Little, Brown Spark\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 01\/26\/2021\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780316535540\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 304","brand":"Ben Montgomery","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":38028095062197,"sku":"9780316535540","price":23.8,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0473\/0804\/6492\/products\/img_f0e65d68-8061-40e2-9025-766c6d41f41d.jpg?v=1609194522","url":"https:\/\/pastforward.org\/products\/a-shot-in-the-moonlight-how-a-freed-slave-and-a-confederate-soldier-fought-for-justice-in-the-jim-crow-south-9780316535540","provider":"Past Forward","version":"1.0","type":"link"}