“…Henry Boyd. After buying himself in Kentucky, he went to Cincinnati to start life as a free man. There he encountered so much prejudice against Negro labor that he could not find employment at his trade of cabinet-making. A new thought came to him, however, and in this way he solved his own problem.
Boyd became convinced that people had been sleeping long enough on straw ticks and wooden slats, and he invented the corded bed, the most comfortable bed prior to the use of springs which brought still more ease. Boyd’s corded bed became popular throughout the Ohio and Mississippi Valleys and he built up a profitable trade.” From, “The Mis-Education Of The Negro” By: Carter G. Woodson
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