Compartir
A Shot in the Moonlight: How a Freed Slave and a Confederate Soldier Fought for Justice in the jim Crow South (en Inglés)
Ben Montgomery
(Autor)
·
Little, Brown Spark
· Tapa Dura
A Shot in the Moonlight: How a Freed Slave and a Confederate Soldier Fought for Justice in the jim Crow South (en Inglés) - Montgomery, Ben
$ 52.132
$ 94.785
Ahorras: $ 42.653
Elige la lista en la que quieres agregar tu producto o crea una nueva lista
✓ Producto agregado correctamente a la lista de deseos.
Ir a Mis Listas
Origen: Estados Unidos
(Costos de importación incluídos en el precio)
Se enviará desde nuestra bodega entre el
Lunes 17 de Junio y el
Miércoles 26 de Junio.
Lo recibirás en cualquier lugar de Colombia entre 1 y 5 días hábiles luego del envío.
Reseña del libro "A Shot in the Moonlight: How a Freed Slave and a Confederate Soldier Fought for Justice in the jim Crow South (en Inglés)"
The 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 The Underground Railroad ) Named a most anticipated book of 2021 by O, The Oprah Magazine Named a "must-read" by the Chicago Review of Books One of CNN's most anticipated books of 2021 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. 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. 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.
