Elizabeth Freeman

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Elizabeth Freeman, also known as Mumbet, was one of the first slaves to file and win a freedom suit in Massachusetts. The Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court, ruling in Freeman's favor, found slavery to be inconsistent with the 1780 Constitution of Massachusetts. Her suit, Brom and Bett v. Ashley (1781), was cited in the Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court appellate review of Quock Walker's free

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"Any time while I was a slave, if one minutes freedom had been offered to me, and I had been told that I must die at the end of that minute, I would have taken it—just to stand one minute on Gods earth a free woman—I would."

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