wcaleb’s Twitter Archive—№ 19,432

In 1878, a federal judge used the "man of his time" argument to instruct the jury in Henrietta Wood's case that former slaveholders now "regret [slavery's] existence as much as any of us." Said it in 1878 ... AS WOOD WAS SUING a former slaveholder to make him regret it. @jmjafrx/1274664459471069185