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

The extraordinary life of Henrietta Wood--a formerly enslaved woman sold back into slavery, eventually freed again, and who then sued the man who had sold her back into bondage, and won.

List of contents

• Prologue


• Part I - The Worst Slave of Them All


• Chapter 1: The Crossing


• Chapter 2: Touseytown


• Chapter 3: Down River


• Chapter 4: Ward's Return


• Chapter 5: Cincinnati


• Chapter 6: The Plan


• Chapter 7: The Flight


• Part II - Forks of the Road


• Chapter 8: Raising a Muss


• Chapter 9: Wood versus Ward


• Chapter 10: The Keeper


• Chapter 11: Natchez


• Chapter 12: Brandon Hall


• Chapter 13: Versailles


• Chapter 14: Revolution


• Chapter 15: The March


• Part III - The Return of Henrietta Wood


• Chapter 16: Arthur


• Chapter 17: Robertson County


• Chapter 18: Dawn and Doom


• Chapter 19: Nashville


• Chapter 20: A Rather Interesting Case


• Chapter 21: Story of a Slave


• Chapter 22: The Verdict


• Epilogue


• Acknowledgements


• Appendix: An Essay on Sources


• Notes


• Index

About the author

W. Caleb McDaniel is Mary Gibbs Jones Professor of Humanities and Professor and Chair of the History Department at Rice University. His website is wcaleb.org and he can be found on Twitter at @wcaleb.

Summary

The extraordinary life of Henrietta Wood--a formerly enslaved woman sold back into slavery, eventually freed again, and who then sued the man who had sold her back into bondage, and won.

Product details

• Authors: W. Caleb McDaniel, W. Caleb (Mary Gibbs Jones Professor of Mcdaniel
• Publisher: Oxford University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 23.09.2021
• EAN: 9780197564288
• ISBN: 978-0-19-756428-8
• No. of pages: 352
• Subjects: Non-fiction book > History > Miscellaneous; USA, Modern history to 20th century: c 1700 to c 1900, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Women's Studies, HISTORY / Social History, Social & cultural history, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Slavery, HISTORY / United States / Civil War Period (1850-1877), HISTORY / United States / 19th Century, HISTORY / Women, c 1800 to c 1900, Social and cultural history, United States of America, USA, Gender studies: women, History of the Americas, Gender studies: women and girls, Slavery & abolition of slavery, Slavery and abolition of slavery