Interview with W. Caleb McDaniel, author of SWEET TASTE OF LIBERTY: A True Story of Slavery and Restitution in America
Since the promise of forty acres and a mule to former slaves by Union General William T. Sherman in 1865, reparations have been on the agenda for former slaves and their descendants. While that continues to be an unresolved issue, there is the story of former slave Henrietta Woods as told in the book SWEET TASTE OF LIBERTY: A True Story of Slavery and Restitution in America by W. Caleb McDaniel. Her story goes as follows: In 1848 Henrietta Woods was freed from slavery by her mistress in Cincinnati. But in 1853, just as she was settling into freedom, she was kidnapped, brought to Kentucky and…
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