125 Acres
7/17/202636 min
George Dinning was emancipated in 1865, when he was 10 years old. By the time he was in his mid-thirties, he’d bought the land on which he had been enslaved. Years later, 25 white men approached the house George had built by hand and told him to come outside.
Ben Montgomery’s book is A Shot in the Moonlight.
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Phoebe Judge· Host0:55
January 21st, 1897, started like most nights did for George Denning and his family on their farm in southern Kentucky. George had dinner with his wife, Molly, and their children. There were seven at home with them. The youngest was four months old, and the oldest was 12. Then George gathered firewood and stoked the stove. It was a cold night.
Ben Montgomery· Guest1:22
And then they'd all gotten into their beds, and they were kind of crowded together. They slept, you know, several kids to each bed.