Sold Back Into Slavery, She Sued for Restitution — and Won
Henrietta Wood’s brave fight predates the current debate over reparations
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8 min readAug 26, 2019
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Picture 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…