‘Good Mother, Farewell’: Elizabeth Freeman’s Silence and the Stories of Mumbet
This essay centers on the figure of Elizabeth Freeman, who was enslaved in Massachusetts in the late eighteenth-century and successfully sued the state for manumission, thus establishing a legal precedent for the abolition of slavery in the Commonwealth. This essay considers Freeman's biography...
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MIT Press Journals
2019
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