Title |
Sweet taste of liberty : : a true story of slavery and restitution in America
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Names |
McDaniel, W. Caleb.
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Book Number |
DB099488
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Title Status |
Active
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Medium |
Digital Book
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Download Link |
Downloadable talking book.
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Annotation |
An account of former slave Henrietta Wood's fight for justice and reparations. After her owner legally freed her, a businessman kidnapped her and sold her back into slavery. The author describes how, after gaining her freedom a second time, Wood successfully sued her abductor for damages. Some violence. Commercial audiobook. Pulitzer Prize. 2019.
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Narrator |
Heitsch, Paul.
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Local Subject |
History, United States - HUS
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History - HST
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Adult Book - AD
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Adult Non-Fiction - AN
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Award-Winning Adult Books - AWA
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Short Book - SH
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Commercial format - CF
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Audience Notes |
Male narrator.
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Pulitzer Prize winner.
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Contains violence.
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LC Subject |
African Americans - Reparations - History - 19th century
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Freedmen - Ohio - Cincinnati - Biography
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Slaves - Kentucky - Biography
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Trials (Kidnapping) - Ohio - Cincinnati
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Women slaves - Kentucky - Biography
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Nonfiction
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Talking books
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Downloadable books
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Call Number |
306.362092 B ANF
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Language |
English
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Released |
2020
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Publication Info |
Washington, D.C. : National Library Service for the Blind and Print Disabled, Library of Congress, 2020 (American Printing House for the Blind, recording studio)
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Original Publication |
Reissue of: Old Saybrook, Conn. : Tantor Media/Recorded Books, [2019] 9781541441330
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