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Sweet Taste of Liberty: A True Story of Slavery and Restitution in America is a book by W. Caleb McDaniel. It won the 2020 Pulitzer Prize for History. [1] [2]
McDaniel's second book, Sweet Taste of Liberty: A True Story of Slavery and Restitution in America, was published in 2019 and was a historical account of the life of Henrietta Wood. Wood was captured and enslaved twice before winning the largest known financial settlement awarded by a U.S. court in restitution for slavery. [14]
Sweet Taste of Liberty may refer to: Sweet Taste of Liberty: A True Story of Slavery and Restitution in America , a book by W. Caleb McDaniel "Sweet Taste of Liberty", an episode from season 1 of How I Met Your Mother
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In 2019, W. Caleb McDaniel, a professor of history at Rice University, used court records and archives to research and publish a book about Wood's life called Sweet Taste of Liberty: A True Story of Slavery and Restitution. [4] The book was awarded the 2020 Pulitzer Prize for history. [6]
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The Palm Beach County School Board will hear a parent's request to remove Bibles from school libraries in the wake of book-banning efforts by Moms for Liberty.
The book explores the infamous U.S. Supreme Court case Dred Scott v. Sandford of 1857, which ruled that the U.S. Congress could not regulate slavery in the territories, that the Constitution did not regard Black people as citizens, and that Black people "had no rights which the white man was bound to respect."