Biography & Autobiography
Sweet Taste of Liberty: A True Story of Slavery and Restitution in America
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. […Learn More]