Links - mumbet.com

Links and more

• Wikipedia
• Mumbet - Story of Elizabeth Freeman YouTube
• The Slave Who Sued for Freedom, by Jon Swan, American Heritage, March 1990
• Facebook page about Mumbet
• One Minute a Free Woman by Emilie Piper and David Levinson
• Radio Script - The Story of Mumbet - Raven Radio Theater
• Elizabeth Freeman Center > click here > or here
• Harold Felton on Mumbet >http://www.unl.edu/libr/libs/spec/feltonlist.html
• Freedom fighter, Scholar will portray a slave who sued for her liberty by Tracy Rose >http://www.mountainx.com/ae/2002/0612chautauqua.html
• L3xicon.com
• Massachusetts Historical Society >http://masshist.org/
• massmoments.org
• megaessays.com
• PBS, Africans in America >http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/aia/part2/2p39.html
• Quok Walker, Mumbet, and the Abolition of Slavery in Massachusetts
  Arthur Zilversmit >http://www.jstor.org/action/showBasicSearch
• The Trustees of Reservations, The Colonel John Ashley House >http://www.berkshireweb.com/trustees/ashley.html
• The Story of Mumbet >http://members.skyweb.net/~channy/mumbet.html
• Junto Society
• Mum Bett Tested Case for Freedom in Early America

References & Articles on Mumbet in Library

• America's Story by David King and Margaret Branson, Story 7, "Mumbet" Book 3. ã (1984) Sundance Publishing.
• The Ashleys: A Pioneer Berkshire Family, Publication prepared for use as a guidebook for the Ashley House, Ashley Falls, MA.,
• Berkshire Courts Emancipated the First American Slave, The Berkshire Hills, Vol. I, No. 2, Pittsfield, MA, October 1, 1900, p.4,5
• The Black Presence in the Era of the American Revolution 1770-1800, Sidney Kaplan(1973),pp. 216-217)
• Berkshire Book, Berkshire Historical and Scientific Society, Judicial History of Berkshire, p.104-5
• Black Women in America Volume One, Editors, Darlene Clark Hine, Elsa Barkley
  Brown, and Rosalyn Terborg-Penn (Indiana University Press, 1994,p. 469,
  Essay written by Taunya Lovell Banks
• Dictionary of American Biography, (8, Part 2: 549-50), article on Mumbet, author Zachariah Chaffee
• Dictionary of American Negro Biography, Editors, Rayford W. Logan and Michael
  R. Winston (Published by W. W. Norton & Company, Inc., 1982)
• The First Emancipation: The Abolition of Slavery in the North, (Chicago: Chicago University Press, 1967)
• Life and Letters of Catharine M. Sedgwick, Edited by Mary E. Dewey , 1871
• The History of the Negro in America 1619-1900,By George Washington Williams (1863)
• The Life and Times of Elizabeth Freeman by Paul F. Graham
• Mumbet & Judge Sedgwick: A Footnote to the Early History of Massachusetts Justice, The Boston Bar Jornal VII Jan 1964, p.12-14
• Mumbet: Folklore and Fact, by Arthur Zilversmit
• New American Cyclopaedia: A Popular Dictionary of General Knowledge, George Ripley and Charles A. Dana, eds,.(New York: d. appleton and co., 1863), Vol. XIV, p. 487
• Part First, Gazetteer of Berkshire County, Massachusetts 1725-1885 by Hamilton Child, 1885, p.349-351
• The Practicability of the Abolition of Slavery: A Lecture Delivered at the Lyceum in Stockbridge, MassachusettsBerkshire Book, Berkshire Historical and Scientific Society, Judicial History of Berkshire, p.104-5
• Retrospect of Western Travel, Harriet Martineau, discusses Elizabeth Freeman
• Quok walker, Mumbet and the Abolition of Slavery in Massachusetts, William and May Quarterly 3rd Ser. Vol. XXV, 1968, p. 616
• Sheffield: Frontier Town, Lillian E. Priess (North Adams, Ma: Excelsior Printing Co., 1976), p. 47
• "Slavery in New England," by Catharine Sedgwick, Bentley's Miscellany, XXXIV (London: Woodfall and Kinder, 1853 ), p. 417-24
• Mumbet's Last Will & Testament

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