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  1. My book, forthcoming from @OUPHistory, tells the story of Henrietta Wood, a formerly enslaved woman who sued a former enslaver in the 1870s—and won. The man she held to account was a pioneer of convict leasing in the U.S. South. @wcaleb/1031367813636739073
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      In many ways the suit was an early and quickly forgotten case of reparations—a case that raised the question of what formerly enslaved people were owed for slavery, and the differences restitution made.
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