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Sweet Taste of Liberty
A True Story of Slavery and Restitution in America
by W. Caleb McDaniel

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• First published: August 7, 2019
• Genres: history, biography, race
• Author: W. Caleb McDaniel
• ISBN: 9780190846992 (0190846992)
• Awards: Pulitzer Prize for History (2020)
• Format: hardcover, 352 pages
• Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
• Release date: September 4, 2019
• Language: english

About The Book

The unforgettable saga of one enslaved woman’s fight for justice — and reparations

Born into slavery, in 1848 Henrietta Wood was taken to Cincinnati and legally freed by her owner. In 1855, a Kentucky businessman named Zebulon Ward colluded with Wood’s employer, abducted her, and sold her back into bondage. She remained enslaved through the Civil War, and for two years after it had ended. In 1867, she obtained her freedom for a second time and returned to Cincinnati, where she sued Ward for damages. Astonishingly, after ten years of litigation, Wood won her case: in 1878, a Federal jury awarded her $2,500. The decision stuck on appeal. More important than the amount — the largest to date ever awarded by an American court as restitution for slavery — was the fact that any money was awarded at all. Against all odds, Wood had triumphed over Ward, who had become a prison warden, amassing wealth off the labor of convicts who were former slaves. Wood went on to live until 1912.

McDaniel’s book tells an epic tale, that of a black woman who struggled against a monolithic system of oppression and achieved more than merely a moral victory over it. Above all, Sweet Taste of Liberty is a tribute to and a portrait of an extraordinary individual.

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