Black Woman Won Largest Reparations Award At Time From U.S. Courts in 1878
Written by Black Hot Fire Network on February 7, 2024
February 6, 2024
In 1878, an all-white jury awarded Henrietta Wood $2,500, which would be more than $75,000 today, in reparations.
In 1878, Henrietta Wood, a formerly “illegally” enslaved Black woman, was awarded $2,500 in reparations by an all-white jury — the most significant sum of its kind that a U.S. court had granted.
Wood initially sought $20,000 for being kidnapped and illegally 
