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1870 Reparations case decided in 1878, filed by freed slave Henrietta Wood who at the time of her manumission was living in Cincinnati, Ohio and was then kidnapped and re-enslaved in 1857 by Zebulon Ward of Covington, Kentucky.
The story: Smithsonian Magazine
https://www.smithsonianmag.com/history/henrietta-wood-sued-reparations-won-180972845/
The Federal Court Decision: Wood v. Ward
https://law.resource.org/pub/us/case/reporter/F.Cas/0030.f.cas/0030.f.cas.0479.pdf
The story: Smithsonian Magazine
https://www.smithsonianmag.com/history/henrietta-wood-sued-reparations-won-180972845/
The Federal Court Decision: Wood v. Ward
https://law.resource.org/pub/us/case/reporter/F.Cas/0030.f.cas/0030.f.cas.0479.pdf