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Author
Publisher
Little, Brown Spark
Pub. Date
2021.
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
xvii, 285 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm
Language
English
Description
A true tale of justice in the Jim Crow south relates the story of George Dinning, a freed slave who was wrongfully convicted of murder after defending himself against a white mob and later won damages against them in court with the help of a Confederate war hero-turned-lawyer.
Author
Publisher
Oxford University Press
Pub. Date
[2019]
Physical Desc
viii, 340 pages, 12 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations, maps ; 25 cm.
Language
English
Description
"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....
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