In 1781, Elizabeth Freeman (also known as Mum Bett), an enslaved woman in Massachusetts, sued her enslavers in court and won, using the new Massachusetts state constitution’s declaration that “all ...

We look at the famous quote from the Declaration of Independence, “all men are created equal,” and the 250-year struggle to ...

The state Senate is planning to commission what Dennis Powell, the president of the NAACP Berkshires, considers “the most significant bust in its history.” The bust will honor Elizabeth Freeman, whose ...

Part of a series of profiles during Black History Month highlighting unsung African American figures from New England. As American colonists put pen to paper to determine the freedoms of the new ...

The story of an enslaved woman who went to court to win her freedom more than 80 years before the Emancipation Proclamation had been pushed to the fringes of history. A group of civic leaders, ...