Henrietta Wood had been kidnapped and sold into slavery in 1853. After the Civil War, she sued her kidnapper for $20k to cover lost wages.
On April 17, 1878, a jury awarded Wood $2,500. This is still the largest amount awarded by a U.S. Court as reparations for slavery.
Record Group 21: Records of District Courts of the United States
Series: Civil Case Files
File Unit: Henrietta Wood vs. Zeb Ward
Transcription:
No 1431
Henrietta Wood
V
Zeb Ward
Verdict
We, the Jury in the above entitled cause, do find for the plaintiff and assess her damages in the premise at Two thousand five hundred dollars $2,500.
D D Conover, Foreman.
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Guys omg I can’t believe Will Wood predicted Faith chapter 3
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Milestone Monday
On this day, June 26 in 1905, the American illustrator, wood engraver, lithographer, and wordless novelist Lynd Ward was born in Chicago, Illinois, the second child of Harry F. Ward, the first chairman of the American Civil Liberties Union. Lynd Ward, who died in 1985, had a long, distinguished career as an illustrator and designer, and his six very popular wordless novels strongly influenced the development of the graphic novel.
To celebrate this milestone, we present all the wood engravings reproduced in Lynd Ward Wood Engravings 1929-1974, the catalog of a retrospective exhibition of Ward's prints mounted by the Associated American Artists in New York City, May 13-31, 1974, in conjunction with the publication of Storyteller Without Words: The Wood Engravings of Lynd Ward, published by Harry N. Abrams. The exhibition presented 46 of Ward's prints. Our copy of the catalog is yet another gift from our friend Jerry Buff.
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so here we are once again, holding, as it were, a mirror up to your mirror! (i guess it’s just something people do!)
our life: beginnings & always aesthetic
baxter ward
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Happy 21st of September 1987!!! I did a John Ward cosplay for the occasion
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I tried to be good and keep every companion's class/subclass as Larian intended, but you can bet I absolutely sprinted to Withers the moment it became even slightly thematically acceptable to respec Shadowheart into a Light cleric.
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20231230 Nakamura park-Meieki 11 by Bong Grit
Via Flickr:
2023年最後の写真は中島八幡社の龍の装飾。 @Nakamura ward, Nagoya city, Aichi pref., Japan.(愛知県名古屋市中村区)
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Bloodborne Round 1, Match 1. Favourite Area?
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