Sweet Taste of Liberty Quotes

“Contrary to what Ward later would claim at the St. James Hotel, he was not the last American to pay for a slave. He was among the very few, and perhaps the very last, to pay a former slave for having enslaved her. The true story, the one that Ward did not want to tell, was that of a black woman who survived enslavement twice—and then made a powerful white man pay.”
― W Caleb McDaniel, Sweet Taste of Liberty: A True Story of Slavery and Restitution in America

“That view required a considerable amount of optimism, given that most white Kentuckians at the time viewed any postwar election won by a Republican as stolen.”
― W Caleb McDaniel, Sweet Taste of Liberty: A True Story of Slavery and Restitution in America

“In an influential 1858 book, the Georgia attorney Thomas Cobb even questioned the need for laws against the rape of a female slave, since what he called "the known lasciviousness of the negro made it unlikely that a black woman would not consent to sex.
Only a few years after Wood was sold in Natchez, the Mississippi State Supreme Court had agreed, in a case called George v. State, that rape was not a crime that could occur between slaves.”
― W. Caleb McDaniel, Sweet Taste of Liberty: A True Story of Slavery and Restitution in America

“I’m going away to New Orleans! Good-bye, my lover, good-bye! I’m going away to New Orleans! Good-bye, my lover, good-bye! Oh, let her go by!”
― W Caleb McDaniel, Sweet Taste of Liberty: A True Story of Slavery and Restitution in America