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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...

A freed slave triumphed over a White lynch mob in the Jim Crow South CNN 2/6/2021 By Faith Karimi, CNN © From Louisville Times An illustration of freed slave George Dinning, who later changed his last name to Denning. On the night of January 21, 1897, a mob of White men armed with pistols and shotguns surrounded the home of freed slave George Dinning in southern Kentucky. They falsely accused him of stealing livestock from a neighboring farm and unleashed a hail of bullets into his house, wounding him in the arm and forehead. Terrified for his wife and children, Dinning f...