Illustration: Geneva Bowers

Sold Back Into Slavery, She Sued for Restitution — and Won

Henrietta Wood’s brave fight predates the current debate over reparations

Morgan Jerkins
ZORA
Published in
8 min readAug 26, 2019

PPicture this: A free Black woman is being transported along in a carriage towards Covington, Kentucky in April of 1853. She had been working for a Ms. Rebecca Boyd in Cincinnati for three months. This Black woman is not certain of the purpose…

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Morgan Jerkins
ZORA
Writer for

Morgan Jerkins is the Senior Editor at ZORA and a New York Times bestselling author. Her debut novel, “Caul Baby,” will be published by Harper in April 2021.