Winner of the Pulitzer Prize for HiStory 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.
She remained enslaved throughout the Civil War, giving birth to a son in Mississippi and never forgetting who had put her in this pos.
In 1853, a Kentucky deputy sheriff named Zebulon Ward colluded with Wood\'s employer, abducted her, and sold her back into bondage.
Winner of the Pulitzer Prize for HiStory 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