The story of the enslaved woman who went to court to win her freedom more than 80 years before the Emancipation Proclamation has been pushed to the fringes of history.
A group of civic leaders, activists and historians unveiled a bronze statue on Sunday of Elizabeth Freeman, an African American woman who went to court to win her freedom more than 80 years before the Emancipation Proclamation.
The story of the enslaved woman who went to court to win her freedom more than 80 years before the Emancipation Proclamation has been pushed to the fringes of history.
Immortalized in bronze, a statue of Elizabeth Freeman now stands beside the First Congregational Church at 125 Main Street in Sheffield, facing the historic Sedgwick House.