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· 36 min · Episode 372

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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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