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Elizabeth Freeman (c. 1744 – December 28, 1829), also known as Mumbet, [a] was one of the first enslaved African Americans 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 .
Elizabeth Freeman (1966 – 2024) was an English professor at the University of California, Davis, and before that Sarah Lawrence College. Freeman specialized in American literature and gender/sexuality/queer studies. [1] She served as Associate Dean of the Faculty for Humanities, Arts, and Cultural Studies at the University of California ...
Elizabeth Freeman (unknown-1829) ... Freeman, also known as Mumbet, was a nurse and midwife who successfully sued Massachusetts for her freedom in 1781, becoming the first African American ...
In 1781, Elizabeth Freeman, an enslaved woman also known as Mum Bett, sued for freedom and won in county court based on her claim that slavery was inconsistent with the state constitution's declaration that "All men are born free and equal." Her case was cited by the state court in Quock Walker's cases shortly thereafter.
A family evacuating their house after it was vandalized in the Chicago race riot When the war ended, Du Bois traveled to Europe in 1919 to attend the first Pan-African Congress and to interview African-American soldiers for a planned book on their experiences in World War I. [ 173 ] He was trailed by U.S. agents who were searching for evidence ...
NEW YORK (Reuters) -U.S. Bankruptcy Judge David Jones in Houston, who oversees more major Chapter 11 cases than any other U.S. judge, said on Friday he is facing an ethics review over a previously ...
Notre Dame head coach Marcus Freeman has quite the impressive squad off the field, too. Freeman, 38, who became the head football coach at Notre Dame in December 2021, married his wife, Joanna ...
Elizabeth Freeman Barrows was born in Kayseri, Ottoman Empire on 20 October 1873 to Christian missionary parents. [5] Due to her brother's poor health condition, when Barrows was two years old she and her family moved to Manisa in the hope that a change of environment would be helpful for the child. Once in Manisa, the Barrows family remained ...