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Sweet taste of liberty : a true story of slavery and restitution in America /

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 free...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: McDaniel, W. Caleb (William Caleb), 1979- (Author)
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: New York : Oxford University Press, [2019]
Subjects:
Wood, Henrietta, > approximately 1818-1912.
Wood, Henrietta, > approximately 1818-1912 > Trials, litigation, etc.
Slaves > Kentucky > Biography.
Women slaves > Kentucky > Biography.
Freedmen > Ohio > Cincinnati > Biography.
Trials (Kidnapping) > Ohio > Cincinnati.
African Americans > Reparations > History > 19th century.
Table of Contents:
  • The crossing
  • Touseytown
  • Down river
  • Ward's return
  • Cincinnati
  • The plan
  • The flight
  • Raising a muss
  • Wood versus Ward
  • The keeper
  • Natchez
  • Brandon Hall
  • Versailles
  • Revolution
  • The march
  • Arthur
  • Robertson County
  • Dawn and doom
  • Nashville
  • A rather interesting case
  • Story of a slave
  • The verdict.