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Rice University historian W. Caleb McDaniel won the Pulitzer Prize in history for this remarkable story about Henrietta Wood, an enslaved person in Kentucky, who was freed in Ohio, kidnapped by a slave broker, re-enslaved, sold in Kentucky, and freed after the Civil War. After returning to Ohio, she sued for restitution in federal court.
Wood was illiterate and signed her name with an X, so it is a tremendous feat of scholarship that her story can be told at all.
The most recent issue of California Litigation, the journal of the litigation section of the California Lawyers Association, is devoted to the theme of racial justice. I am one of the editors of the journal, and my review of the book, which appears in the recent issue, can be read by clicking here.
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