How An Enslaved Woman Sued And Won Her Freedom In 18th-Century Massachusetts

Elizabeth Freeman was brought to a house in Sheffield, Massachusetts in 1758 as a teenager. She helped keep the fires going. She cleaned, cooked and served.

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