Sweet taste of liberty : a true story of slavery and restitution in America / W. Caleb McDaniel.
McDaniel, W. Caleb (William Caleb), 1979- author.
2019
E444.W815 M35 2019 (Mapit)
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Title Sweet taste of liberty : a true story of slavery and restitution in America / W. Caleb McDaniel.
Author McDaniel, W. Caleb (William Caleb), 1979- author.
ISBN 9780190846992 (hardcover)
0190846992 (hardcover)
Published New York, NY : Oxford University Press, [2019]
Language English
Description viii, 340 pages, 10 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations, maps ; 25 cm
Call Number E444.W815 M35 2019
Dewey Decimal Classification 306.3/62092 B
Summary "In Sweet Taste of Liberty, W. Caleb McDaniel focuses on the experience of a freed slave who was sold back into slavery, eventually freed again, and who then sued the man who had sold her back into bondage. Henrietta Wood was born into slavery, but in 1848, she was taken to Cincinnati and legally freed. In 1855, however, a wealthy Kentucky businessman named Zebulon Ward, who colluded with Wood's employer, abducted Wood and sold her back into bondage. In the years that followed before and during the Civil War, she gave birth to a son and was forced to march to Texas. She obtained her freedom a second time after the war and returned to Cincinnati, where she sued Ward for $20,000 in damages--now known as reparations. Astonishingly, after ten years of litigation, Henrietta Wood won her case. In 1878, a Federal jury awarded her $2,500 and the decision stuck on appeal. While nowhere close to the amount she had demanded, this may be the largest amount of money ever awarded by an American court in restitution for slavery. Wood went on to live until 1912"-- Provided by publisher.
Bibliography, etc. Note Includes bibliographical references (pages 259-325) and index.
Awards Pulitzer Prize, 2020.
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Part I. The worst slave of them all
The crossing
Touseytown
Down river
Ward's return
Cincinnati
The plan
The flight
Part II. Forks in the road
Raising a muss
Wood versus Ward
The keeper
Natchez
Brandon Hall
Versailles
Revolution
The march
Part III. The return of Henrietta Wood
Arthur
Robertson County
Dawn and doom
Nashville
A rather interesting case
Story of a slave
The verdict.

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