Author: Arkansas. Board of Commissioners for the Leasing Management and Regulation of the Arkansas State PenitentiaryPublisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 74
Book Description
Report of the Board of Commissioners for the Leasing Management and Regulation of the Arkansas State Penitentiary
Author: Arkansas. Board of Commissioners for the Leasing Management and Regulation of the Arkansas State PenitentiaryPublisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 74
Book Description
Arkansas Reports
Author: Arkansas. Supreme CourtPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Law reports, digests, etc
Languages : en
Pages : 714
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Annual Report of the Commissioner of Labor
Author: United States. Bureau of LaborPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Labor
Languages : en
Pages : 808
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Annual report
Author: United States. Department of LaborPublisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 808
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Annual Report of the Commissioner of Labor
Author: Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Labor
Languages : en
Pages : 806
Book Description
Sweet Taste of Liberty
Author: W. Caleb McDanielPublisher: Oxford University Press
ISBN: 019084700X
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 365
Book Description
Winner of the Pulitzer Prize for History 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. By 1869, Wood had obtained her freedom for a second time and returned to Cincinnati, where she sued Ward for damages in 1870. Astonishingly, after eight years of litigation, Wood won her case: in 1878, a Federal jury awarded her $2,500. The decision stuck on appeal. More important than the amount, though the largest ever awarded by an American court in restitution for slavery, was the fact that any money was awarded at all. By the time the case was decided, Ward had become a wealthy businessman and a pioneer of convict leasing in the South. Wood's son later became a prominent Chicago lawyer, and she went on to live until 1912. McDaniel's book is an epic tale of a black woman who survived slavery twice and who achieved more than merely a moral victory over one of her oppressors. Above all, Sweet Taste of Liberty is a portrait of an extraordinary individual as well as a searing reminder of the lessons of her story, which establish beyond question the connections between slavery and the prison system that rose in its place.
Report
Author: Arkansas. Office of the Secretary of StatePublisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 314
Book Description
Annual Report of the Commissioner of Labor
Author: United States. Dept. of LaborPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Labor
Languages : en
Pages : 630
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Annual Report of the Department of the Interior
Author: United States. Department of the InteriorPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Public lands
Languages : en
Pages : 638
Book Description
Special Report of the Commissioner of Labor ...
Author: United States. Bureau of LaborPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Labor
Languages : en
Pages : 1416
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