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Mumbet was a slave living in western Massachusetts in the years leading up to the American Revolution. While serving refreshments to members of a committee assembled at her owner’s home to craft a document of protest to be sent to the King of England, she overheard words that proclaimed freedom for all people. Later, after these same words were included in the constitution of the new state of Massachusetts, Mumbet convinced a young lawyer, Theodore Sedgwick, to successfully sue for her freedom in a court of law. |
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One Minute a Free Woman: Elizabeth Freeman and the Struggle for her Freedom |
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A Free Woman On God's Earth: The True Story of Elizabeth Mumbet Freeman, The Slave Who Won Her Freedom by Jana Laiz and Ann-Elizabeth Barnes Publisher: Crow Flies Press (November 7, 2009) ISBN-10: 0981491022 ISBN-13: 978-0981491028 |
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Mumbet : The Life and Times of Elizabeth Freeman : The True Story of a Slave Who Won Her Freedom (Avisson Young Adult Series) by Mary Wilds Booklist review - www.ala.org/booklist "In 1781, a black slave, MumBet (aka Elizabeth Freeman), heard the Declaration of Independence read at a town meeting in Sheffield, Massachusetts. The next day she went to a local attorney and asked him to file a lawsuit demanding her freedom. Two years later, MumBet won her lawsuit and became a free woman. Her trial helped set the legal precedents that ended slavery in New England. This brief biography gives the basics of MumBet's life and describes the troubled times in which she lived. There are tantalizing glimpses of a remarkable woman of action--a woman who dared to defy her cruel mistress and was scarred for life with a red-hot shovel as a result; a woman who foiled looters during Shay's Rebellion; a woman who made a new life for herself. Young adults will remember MumBet and her passionate outburst: "Any time, any time while I was a slave, if one minute's freedom had been offered to me and I had been told I must die at the end of that minute, I would have taken it, just to stand one minute on God's earth a free woman, I would." Bibliography with primary and secondary sources; end notes. Jean Franklin Copyright© 1999, American Library Association. All rights reserved" This book was published in June 1999 |
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Second Daughter: The Story of a Slave Girl by Mildred Pitts Walter Booklist review - www.ala.org/booklist "The history is dramatic: in 1781 a slave woman, Mum Bett, took her owner to court and won her freedom under the Massachusetts Constitution. Her story is told in the voice of her fictional younger sister, Aissa, who describes the events leading up to that historic trial--what it was like to be a slave, to be sold away from home, to work for someone who saw you only as property, to hide your true self. The plot meanders, and the characterization is thin: through Aissa's eyes, people are pretty much saints or villains, though the author does show that Bett holds on to a strong sense of her inner worth. What readers will respond to are the facts of Bett's life and the bitter truth of the young slave's commentary. For the powerful leaders who are fighting the Revolutionary War and hammering out the Constitution, the sisters are invisible. As the action builds to the climax of the trial, Aissa raises the elemental question: if the great new Constitution says that all men are created equal, does "men" include black men and all women?" Hazel Rochman Copyright© 1996, American Library Association. All rights reserved This book was published in 1996 |
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Mumbet : The Story of Elizabeth Freeman |
Other Books Mentioning Mumbet |
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The Black presence in the era of the American Revolution, 1770-1800 Mumbet is mentioned on pages 216 -217 |
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America's Story by David King and Margaret Branson Mumbet is mentioned in Story 7, "Mumbet" Book 3.
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Books by Catharine Maria Sedgwick |
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Hope Leslie: or, Early Times in the Massachusetts Set in 17th-century New England, this is a portrait of early American life and the role of women in building the Republic. It challenges the conventional view of Indians, tackles interracial marriage and cross-cultural friendship, and claims for women their rightful place in history. |
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Hope Leslie: or, Early Times in the Massachusett Set in 17th-century New England, this is a portrait of early American life and the role of women in building the Republic. It challenges the conventional view of Indians, tackles interracial marriage and cross-cultural friendship, and claims for women their rightful place in history. |
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The Linwoods: Or, 'Redwood: A Tale... [Paperback] by Catharine Maria Sedgwick Publisher: Nabu Press (January 8, 2010) ISBN-10: 1141038218 ISBN-13: 978-1141038213 |
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A New-England Tale; Or, Sketches of New-England Character and Manners (Early American Women Writers) [Paperback] by Catharine Maria Sedgwick Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA (September 28, 1995) Written in 1822, A New-England Tale is the first of Catherine Sedgwick's twenty novels in addition to the one hundred short magazine pieces she published in her lifetime. The story of an orphan girl in rural New England and the moral and religious trials she faces as she grows up, this intriguing portrait provides a unique look at the religious and political climate of this crucial period in America's development as a country. Addressing many of the complex religious, political, and philosophical issues of the time, as well as theoretical issues of the woman writer, A New-England Tale is a classic nineteenth-century story of a young woman's moral and material triumphs. |
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Power of Her Sympathy: The Autobiography and Journal of Catharine Maria Sedgwick [Hardcover] by Catharine Maria Sedgwick Publisher: Massachusetts Historical Society (1993) ASIN: B0013730HE |
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Married or Single? [Paperback] by Catharine Maria Sedgwick Publisher: Cornell University Library (January 1, 1857) ISBN-10: 1429739762 ISBN-13: 978-1429739764 |
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The Linwoods: Or, 'Sixty Years Since' in America [Paperback] by Catharine Maria Sedgwick Publisher: BiblioLife (February 11, 2009) ISBN-10: 110321036X ISBN-13: 978-1103210367 |
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The Linwoods: Or, 'Sixty Years Since' in America [Paperback] by Catharine Maria Sedgwick Publisher: Nabu Press (August 20, 2010) ISBN-10: 1177583364 ISBN-13: 978-1177583367 |
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Life And Letters Of Catharine M. Sedgwick [Paperback] by Catharine Maria Sedgwick Publisher: Rossetti Press (July 8, 2008) ISBN-10: 1408683881 ISBN-13: 978-1408683880 |
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Catharine Maria Sedgwick: Critical Perspectives [Hardcover] Lucinda Damon-Bach (Editor), Victoria Clements (Editor), Mary Kelley (Contributor), Ed. Victoria Clements (Author) Publisher: Northeastern; illustrated edition edition (2003) ISBN-10: 1555535488 ISBN-13: 978-1555535483 |
Books by Theodore Sedgwick |
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Treatise on the Rules With Govern Interpretation and Construction of Statutory and Constitutional Law [Hardcover] by Theodore Sedgwick Publisher: Ayer Co Pub (May 1991) ISBN-10: 0837711150 ISBN-13: 0837711150 |
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Public and Private Economy (Poverty U.S.a. Historical Record Series : Part 1) [Hardcover] by Theodore Sedgwick Publisher: Fred B Rothman & Co; 2 edition (June 1981) ISBN-10: 0405031254 ISBN-13: 0978-0405031250 |
Books by Tapping Reeve |
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The Law of Baron and Femme, of Parent and Child, Guardian and Ward, Master and Servant, and of the Powers of the Courts of Chancery: With an Essay on the Terms Heir, Heirs, Heirs of the Body [Hardcover] by Tapping Reeve Publisher: Lawbook Exchange; 3 edition (November 1998) ISBN-10: 1886363587 ISBN-13: 978-1886363588 |
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The Law of Baron and Femme, of Parent and Child, Guardian and Ward, Master and Servant, and of the Powers of the Courts of Chancery: With an Essay on the Terms Heir, Heirs, Heirs of the Body [Paperback] by Tapping Reeve Publisher: Nabu Press (February 4, 2010) ISBN-10: 1143736613 ISBN-13: 978-1143736612 |