The little-known true story of Freed Slave George Dinning and Colonel BennettH.
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..
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.
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.
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.
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.
Half carried rifles and shotguns, and a few tucked pistols in their pants.
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.
Taut and tense.
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.
Young, a Confederate war hero, who in 1899 took on a Kentucky mob in courtafter Dinning was beaten for defending his farm against whites.
The little-known true story of Freed Slave George Dinning and Colonel BennettH
