Sweet Taste of Liberty: A True Story of Slavery and Restitution in America

by W. Caleb McDaniel and W Caleb McDaniel

Book Overview

Winner of the Pulitzer Prize for History

The unforgettable saga of one enslaved woman's fight for justice--and reparations

Born into slavery, Henrietta Wood was taken to Cincinnati and legally freed in 1848. In 1853, a Kentucky deputy sheriff named Zebulon Ward colluded with Wood's employer, abducted her, and sold her back into bondage. She remained enslaved throughout the Civil War, giving birth to a son in Mississippi...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0190846992
• ISBN13: 9780190846992
• Release Date: September 2019
• Publisher: Oxford University Press
• Length: 352 Pages
• Weight: 1.57 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.3" x 6.3" x 9.4"