W. Caleb McDaniel
Author of Sweet Taste of Liberty: A True Story of Slavery and Restitution in America
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.
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- Birthdate
- 1979-08-02
- Gender
- male
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Sweet Taste of Liberty: A True Story of Slavery and… by W. Caleb McDaniel
This is a difficult book to read because of the injustice accrued by the subject. The author has exhaustively chronicled the life of a woman, born into slavery, and her struggle with the system throughout her life to gain freedom. The author has done a good job of vetting his sources while also giving way to admission of opinion and guesswork in the absence of some critical evidence. It is a biography mixed with some history of the Reconstruction. Well worth reading.
A well researched about a woman's quest for reparations for her work as a slave in the mid eighteen hundreds. How this came about is a very fascinating story. Henrietta Wood received her freedom (with papers) from her master and was living in Cincinnati, Ohio. However, she is lured across the Ohio River where she is captured and becomes a slave again. Over the years she is able to make her way back to the North and finds a lawyer to take up her cause and get back income for her labor when she was wrongly enslaved. A very interesting look at slavery during that time.… (more)
An interesting book, but written in such a forward and backward way, it made me a bit crazy. All the pertinent details are told up front. And again. And yet again, all the while filling in some small new details. I must give the author much credit for not giving up on tracking down what papers still existed. Worth the read, but have patience!
A formerly enslaved woman sought and ultimately won damages for her (unlawful even then) reenslavement via deception and coercion. An interesting entry in “how was agency negotiated under coercion.”
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