Litigation
Cal. Litig. 2020, Volume 33, Number 3
Content
- Black Votes Matter
- Editor's Foreword At a Crossroads for a Juster System
- From the Section Chair
- Masthead
- My Ancestors' Wildest Dreams
- Obtaining Information from Law Enforcement Personnel Files: a Defense Attorney's Perspective
- Preventing Discrimination in Jury Selection
- Supreme Court of California Statement on Equality
- Table of Contents
- The California Supreme Court, 2019-2020: Continuing Evolution of a Diverse Court
- The Greatest of the Greatest Generation
- The Guy Miles Case - Race and a Wrongful Conviction
- The Impact of Innocence: a Lawyer's Perspective
- This Land. Your Land. My Land.
- Words Matter. Perhaps Especially Ours as Lawyers.
- Sweet Taste of Liberty: a True Story of Slavery and Restitution in America
Sweet Taste of Liberty: A True Story of Slavery and Restitution in America
By W. Caleb McDaniel
Reviewed by Marc Alexander
Marc Alexander is a mediator at AlvaradoSmith APC. He publishes California Mediation and Arbitration (www.calmediation.org) and is a co-contributor to California Attorney’s Fees (www.calattorneysfees.com). malexander@alvaradosmith.com
"A rather interesting case has been commenced in the Superior Court of this city," reported the Cincinnati Enquirer in 1870, "out of the custom of slavery, now supposed to be extinct." The plaintiff, Henrietta Wood, a former resident of Cincinnati, had sued Zebulon Ward, alleging she had been abducted by Ward’s slave trading agent, and delivered to Kentucky from Cincinnati, the place where she had enjoyed her "sweet taste of liberty." She was then reenslaved in Kentucky and sold to subsequent plantation owners, "remaining there in the bonds of slavery until her shackles were knocked off by the lamented Mr. Lincoln." She asked for $20,000 in damages, including years of lost wages.