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A Shot in the Moonlight: How a Freed Slave and a Confederate Soldier Fought for Justice in the Jim Crow South

A Shot in the Moonlight examines how a Freed Slave and a Confederate Soldier Fought for Justice in the Jim Crow South, combining Ben Montgomery's clear narrative with the perspective of a biographical portrait. Moving between close detail and context, the book explains the forces surrounding its subject and connects them to the connected fields of biography & autobiography and history. Rather than isolating its subject, the book shows how private experience and public systems continually influenced one another. The book ultimately clarifies what made these developments possible, who experienced their effects, and why the story remains significant.

Publisher: Little Brown & Company
Publication date: 2021
Format: Print edition
Pages: 304
ISBN: 9780316535540

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