What all of us can learn from two black-owned businesses separated by nearly 200 years

Henry Boyd was a Cincinnati cabinet maker in the 1830s, a man who moved from Kentucky after he bought himself out of slavery. You read that correctly. He was such a skilled furniture maker that he earned enough money to buy his own freedom – and enough to buy it for his brother and sister, too, according to Gina Ruffin Moore, a local author.