On this day in 1781, more than 80 years before the Emancipation Proclamation, Elizabeth Freeman sued for her freedom from slavery.
by Jerry Mitchell, Mississippi Today August 21, 2023 Aug. 21, 1781 A statue of Elizabeth Freeman on display in the National Museum of African American History and Culture's Slavery and Freedom exhibition. More than 80 years before the Emancipation Proclamation, an enslaved woman known as Elizabeth Freeman sued for her freedom in Massachusetts. The odds against her winning her case before a dozen white men seemed impossible. Freeman worked for Col.
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