Sweet Taste of Liberty by W. Caleb McDaniel

14/01/2020 9h 51min
Sweet Taste of Liberty by W. Caleb McDaniel

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Title: Sweet Taste of Liberty
Author: W. Caleb McDaniel
Narrator: Paul Heitsch
Format: mp3
Length: 9 hrs and 51 mins
Release date: 01-14-20
Ratings: 4.5 out of 5 stars, 98 ratings
Genres: Women
Publisher's Summary:
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 and never forgetting who had put her in this position. By 1869, Wood had obtained her freedom for a second time and returned to Cincinnati, where she sued Ward for damages in 1870. Astonishingly, after eight years of litigation, Wood won her case: In 1878, a Federal jury awarded her $2,500.