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Sweet Taste of Liberty: A True Story of Slavery and Restitution in America (vuoden 2019 painos)

Tekijä: W. Caleb McDaniel (Tekijä)

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"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"--… (lisätietoja)

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Teoksen nimi:	Sweet Taste of Liberty: A True Story of Slavery and Restitution in America
Kirjailijat:	W. Caleb McDaniel (Tekijä)
Info:	Oxford University Press (2019), Edition: Illustrated, 352 pages
Kokoelmat:	Oma kirjasto
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Avainsanoja:	nonfiction, history

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This is a difficult book to read because of the injustice accrued by the subject. The author has exhaustively chronicled the life of a woman, born into slavery, and her struggle with the system throughout her life to gain freedom. The author has done a good job of vetting his sources while also giving way to admission of opinion and guesswork in the absence of some critical evidence. It is a biography mixed with some history of the Reconstruction. Well worth reading. (

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mldavis2 | Sep 29, 2023 |

A well researched about a woman's quest for reparations for her work as a slave in the mid eighteen hundreds. How this came about is a very fascinating story. Henrietta Wood received her freedom (with papers) from her master and was living in Cincinnati, Ohio. However, she is lured across the Ohio River where she is captured and becomes a slave again. Over the years she is able to make her way back to the North and finds a lawyer to take up her cause and get back income for her labor when she was wrongly enslaved. A very interesting look at slavery during that time. (

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muddyboy | Jul 4, 2021 |

An interesting book, but written in such a forward and backward way, it made me a bit crazy. All the pertinent details are told up front. And again. And yet again, all the while filling in some small new details. I must give the author much credit for not giving up on tracking down what papers still existed. Worth the read, but have patience! (

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kaulsu | Mar 31, 2021 |

A formerly enslaved woman sought and ultimately won damages for her (unlawful even then) reenslavement via deception and coercion. An interesting entry in “how was agency negotiated under coercion.” (

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rivkat | Jan 18, 2021 |

This work is about Ward, a slave owner, and Wood, a slave who twice gained and lost her freedom. Caleb in his prologue raises some of the questions coming out of Wood’s case.
Where had men such as Ward gotten all their wealth? Where, for that matter, had the country gotten its riches? And what could the amount that Wood won do for families like hers? What did freedom mean without resitution for slavery?

This enthralling story of Woods a woman who was twice enslaved and twice set free told by Caleb McDaniels. She won a case in federal court against one of her former masters, which gives us some small insight into how reparations might affect communities today. Caleb has brought this story out of the dust by weaving together newspaper accounts and court cases involving Woods. (

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"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"--

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