Sweet Taste of Liberty: A True Story of Slavery and Restitution in AmericaWinner of the Pulitzer Prize for HistoryThe unforgettable saga of one enslaved woman's fight for justice and reparationsBorn 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 Mississippiand never forgetting who had put