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

Sommario

• 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

Info autore

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.

Riassunto

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.

Dettagli sul prodotto

• Autori: W. Caleb (Mary Gibbs Jones Professor of Mcdaniel, W. Caleb McDaniel
• Editore: Oxford University Press
• Contenuto: Libro
• Forma del prodotto: Copertina rigida
• Data pubblicazione: 14.11.2019
• Categoria: Saggistica > Storia > Altro
• EAN: 9780190846992
• ISBN: 978-0-19-084699-2
• Numero di pagine: 352
• Categorie: USA, Modern history to 20th century: c 1700 to c 1900, military history, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Slavery, HISTORY / United States / Civil War Period (1850-1877), HISTORY / Military / United States, HISTORY / United States / 19th Century, c 1800 to c 1900, c 1500 onwards to present day, United States of America, USA, History of the Americas, Battles & campaigns, Slavery & abolition of slavery, Specific wars and campaigns, Modern Period, C 1500 Onwards, Slavery and abolition of slavery, c 1860 to c 1869, Civil wars, HISTORY / Wars & Conflicts / General