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History is seldom neat. Two books, one on antebellum New York and the other on 1890s Kentucky, illustrate the tension, showing despicable behavior relieved by the stalwart courage of a few. New York had a long history of slavery (abolished beginning only in 1817) but also a thriving Black community as well. Yet because of its financing of southern cotton, much of the city was pro-southern, led by the Democratic Tammany Hall political machine....

New York had a long history of slavery (abolished beginning only in 1817) but also a thriving Black community as well. Yet because of its financing of southern cotton, much of the city was pro-southern, led by the Democratic Tammany Hall political machine. The US constitution included a clause on the return of fugitive slaves. In his new book, The Kidnapping Club: Wall Street, Slavery and Resistance on the Eve of the Civil War, Jonathan Daniel Wells quotes Harriet Jacobs describing New York in the 1830s as a “city of kidnappers” waiting to seize Black people, free or enslaved, and ...

Book review: In "A Shot in the Moonlight," Ben Montgomery tells the tale of a mob of night riders, a Black farmer who stood up to them, and a white man who defended him in court.

An urgent book of history: The story of George Denning Updated Feb 14, 2021; Posted Feb 14, 2021 A Shot in the Moonlight - How a freed slave and a Confederate soldier fought for justice in the Jim Crow south. (photo courtesy Little, Brown Spark) Facebook Share By Donnamy Steele George Denning stood before a jury of white men when he was sentenced to seven years of prison for manslaughter. What happened after that moment became a long and surprising tale, especially for a former slave in the south in the 1800s. His story began as a misunderstanding, which quickly turned into a fight or fli...

BY ROLAND KLOSE St. Louis Post-Dispatch February 10, 2021 41 “A Shot in the Moonlight: How a Freed Slave and a Confederate Soldier Fought for Justice in the Jim Crow South” by Ben Montgomery; Little Brown Spark (304 pages, $28) About 500 St. Louisans gathered in 1914 for the dedication of a Confederate memorial in Forest Park, where Bennett H. Young, commander-in-chief of the United Confederate Veterans Association, eulogized the “bravery” and “bitter determination” of the 600,000 Southern men who fought for a “cause they believed to be right.” Young, an apologist for the Conf...