Sweet Taste of Liberty: A True Story of Slavery and Restitution in America
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.
Buy this book at Amazon- Publisher
- Oxford University Press
- Year
- 2019
- ISBN-13
- 9780190847012
- Genre
- History
- Topics
- SlaveryReparations and restitutionAmerican legal history
Awards
- Pulitzer Prize for HistoryWonMajor(2020)
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