1744?-1829

Recounts the life of Elizabeth "Mumbet" Freeman, a slave who had the courage to speak up and gain her freedom, setting the stage for the abolition of slavery in Massachusetts in 1783.

Mumbet's Declaration of Independence tells the story of a Massachusetts slave from the Revolutionary era--in 1781, she successfully used the new Massachusetts Constitution to make a legal case that she should be free.

Mumbet's Declaration of Independence tells the story of a Massachusetts slave from the Revolutionary era--in 1781, she successfully used the new Massachusetts Constitution to make a legal case that she should be free.

A biography of the eighteenth-century female slave whose court case helped to set precedents that would bar slavery in Massachusetts.