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Black Woman Sued Her Enslaver for Reparations in 1870 and Won

A Black woman named Henrietta Wood was born into slavery in Kentucky between 1818 and 1820, bur she sued one of her enslavers and won.

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History: Black Woman Won Largest Reparations Award At Time From U S Courts in 1878

History: Black Woman Won Largest Reparations Award At Time From U S Courts in 1878
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In 1870, a Black Woman Sued Her Enslaver for Reparations and Won

Henrietta Wood was born into slavery. After she was freed, she sued her enslaver for $20,000 $500 for every year she was enslaved.

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Henrietta Wood sued for slavery reparations after the Civil War and won Her descendants never knew

After the Civil War, Henrietta Wood made history by pursuing an audacious lawsuit against the man who’d kidnapped her back into slavery. Yet the story was lost to her own family.

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She sued her enslaver for reparations and won Her descendants never knew

She sued her enslaver for reparations and won. Her descendants never knew. Sydney Trent, The Washington Post Feb. 24, 2021 FacebookTwitterEmail 5 1of5Danielle Blackman, a descendant of Henrietta Wood, holds a photo of Arthur Simms Jr and his sister Neata, Wood s grandchildren.photo for The Washington Post by Julie Bennett.Show MoreShow Less 2of5Gerard Brandon, one of the largest slaveholders in the South, bought Henrietta Wood and took her to his house, Brandon Hall, on the Natchez Trace.Library of Congress.Show MoreShow Less 3of5 4of5Danielle Blackman, a descendant of Henrietta Wood, near her home in Pensacola, Fla.,photo for The Washington Post by Julie Bennett,Show MoreShow Less

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