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

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Winner of the Pulitzer Prize for History

The unforgettable saga of one enslaved woman's fight for justice--and reparations


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...