Description The unforgettable saga of one enslaved woman\'s fight for justice--and reparations Born into slavery, Henrietta Wood was taken to Cincinnati and legally freed in 1848.
By 1869,.
She remained enslaved throughout the Civil War, giving birth to a son in Mississippi and never forgetting who had put her in this position.
In 1853, a Kentucky deputy sheriff named Zebulon Ward colluded with Wood\'s employer, abducted her, and sold her back into bondage.
Description The unforgettable saga of one enslaved woman\'s fight for justice--and reparations Born into slavery, Henrietta Wood was taken to Cincinnati and legally freed in 1848