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Women pioneers of reparations
Women pioneers of reparations

Previously I posted about Henrietta Wood. Here are other early women pioneers for reparations.

Belinda (Royal) Sutton was born in 1712 in Ghana. She was abandoned by her enslaver, who had offered emancipation upon his death or her transfer to his daughter. If she chose freedom he provided 30 pounds for three years so she wouldn’t be a public charge. In 1783, at 63 years old, Sutton filed a petition to the Massachusetts General Court requesting a pension from the estate of her former enslaver.

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Black woman won largest reparations award at time from U.S. courts in 1878
Black woman won largest reparations award at time from U.S. courts in 1878

In 1878, Henrietta Wood, a formerly “illegally” enslaved Black woman, was awarded $2,500 in reparations by an all-white jury — the most significant sum of its kind that a U.S. court had granted.

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