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"Any time while I was a slave, if one minute’s freedom had been offered to me, & 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 airth a free woman. . ." —Elizabeth (Mumbet) Freeman #tdih 1781 🧵
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Aug. 22, 1781: Elizabeth Mumbet Freeman Secures Her Freedom
Elizabeth Mumbet Freeman won her freedom after she got an attorney and filed a “freedom suit” under the 1780 State Constitution for Massachusetts.
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August 22, 2026 at 1:08 PM
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"Any time while I was a slave, if one minute’s freedom had been offered to me, & 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 airth a free woman. . ." —Elizabeth (Mumbet) Freeman #tdih 1781 🧵
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Aug. 22, 1781: Elizabeth Mumbet Freeman Secures Her Freedom
Elizabeth Mumbet Freeman won her freedom after she got an attorney and filed a “freedom suit” under the 1780 State Constitution for Massachusetts.
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August 22, 2025 at 11:39 AM
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Black History Month day 2:

Elizabeth Freeman
Unknown-1829

Also known as Mumbet, was a nurse/midwife who sued Massachusetts for her freedom in 1781, becoming the 1st enslaved woman to win a freedom suit in the state. Her suit helped lead to the abolition of slavery in the state of MA.
Portrait drawing of Elizabeth Freeman
February 2, 2025 at 8:54 PM
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Protect her at all costs.
It's terrifying to think what Nazis Trump/Elon & their white supremacist hacker boys/Heritage's #Project2025 Brown Shirts will do to #NMAAHC.
They'll declare the entire National Museum of African American History & Culture hostile to Trump's Nazi ideology.
#MumBett #Mumbet
March 28, 2025 at 10:22 AM
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MumBet...enslaved in Sheffield, Mass. Sued her violent owners using Tappan-Reed, a Litchfield Ct. white lawyer and won here freedom. may she RIP🌹
June 26, 2025 at 2:40 PM
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Judy call me O lost your mumbet #blutoid
October 20, 2024 at 4:34 PM
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Mumbet
June 24, 2026 at 10:13 AM
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“Any time, any time while I was a slave, if one minute’s freedom had been offered 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.”

Sharing 'Mum Bett' Elizabeth Freeman’s words on Juneteenth.
Elizabeth Freeman (“Mumbet”) portrait by Susan Anne Livingston Ridley Sedgwick, 1811. Collection of the Massachusetts Historical Society. Oil portrait of Freeman in white bonnet and blue dress and white kerchief.
June 19, 2025 at 7:55 PM
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Day 22 #BHM: Elizabeth ‘Mumbet’ Freeman (c. 1744 – 1829). Living 30-years in slavery, she successfully filed and won a freedom suit in MA – the legal bedrock for abolishing slavery in the Commonwealth in 1783. 1/2 youtu.be/PB9DSi7F5dA?... #PINKS
Elizabeth Freeman: Trailblazer for Freedom | Black Patriots | History
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February 22, 2026 at 3:27 PM
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old lady on Facebook posted "Judy call me O lost your mumbet"
May 17, 2026 at 11:30 PM
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Elizabeth Freeman (“Mumbet”) (1744–1829) - Freedom Seeker and Early Abolitionist - one of the first enslaved women to gain freedom through legal action.

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Elizabeth Freeman (“Mumbet”) (1744–1829) - Freedom Seeker and Early Abolitionist Elizabeth Freeman, known as “Mum Bet,” was born enslaved in New York around 1744. She later lived in Massachusetts and was enslaved to Cl. John Ashley, a wealthy, and prominent Revolutionary War leader, who helped draft the State’s Declaration of rights, which included “All men are born free and equal, and have certain natural, essential, and unalienable rights.”. One day, the Colonel’s wife struck Mum Bet with a burning shovel for protecting her sister. Mum Bet openly wore the resulting scar on her arm in quiet defiance; it would also be evidence in the suit Mum Bet filed against her enslaver. In 1781, with the help of lawyer Theodore Sedgwick, Mum Bet and another enslaved man named Brom sued for their freedom — and won. The argument was revolutionary: Massachusetts's new constitution declared all men free and equal. Slavery contradicted this fundamental principle. Therefore, slavery was illegal in Massachusetts, and Mum Bet and Brom should be freed. Her landmark case, Brom and Bett v. Ashley, became a key precedent that helped end slavery in Massachusetts, making her one of the first enslaved women to gain freedom through legal action. After the verdict, Mum Bet chose a new name for her new life: Elizabeth Freeman. Elizabeth Freeman's case set legal precedent that helped end slavery in Massachusetts. Two years later, the Quock Walker case (1783) cemented the constitutional argument against slavery, and Massachusetts became one of the first states where slavery was effectively abolished. Freeman then went to work for the Sedgwick family, became a respected midwife and nurse, and owned her own home — a rare achievement for women of her time. Her bravery and belief in equality helped lay the groundwork for the abolition movement in America. She lived until 1829, dying at approximately 85 years old. The Sedgwick family had her buried in their family plot—an extraordinary honor that a…
November 21, 2025 at 5:09 PM
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Mumbet
June 24, 2026 at 10:10 AM
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Mumbet forever!
August 23, 2026 at 12:00 AM
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Mumbet! There's a good children's book about her.
April 22, 2026 at 11:32 PM
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#history elizabethfreeman.mumbet.com/who-is-mumbet/
Who is Mumbet? – Elizabeth Freeman
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November 25, 2025 at 2:08 AM
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#Mumbet
June 26, 2026 at 12:12 AM
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Protect her at all costs.
It's terrifying to think what Nazis Trump/Elon & their white supremacist hacker boys/Heritage's #Project2025 Brown Shirts will do to #NMAAHC.
They'll declare the entire National Museum of African American History & Culture hostile to Trump's Nazi ideology.
#MumBett #Mumbet
March 28, 2025 at 10:20 AM
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roman call me O lost your mumbet
September 18, 2025 at 11:49 AM
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From Mumbet to Elizabeth Freeman #kyrasedgwick
August 22, 2025 at 7:24 AM
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Two books about her: MUMBET and A REVOLUTIONARY WOMAN
January 23, 2025 at 3:59 PM
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From Elizabeth Freeman's gravestone in Sedgwick, MA, epitaph written by Charles Sedgwick:

"She was born a slave and remained a slave for nearly thirty years. She could neither read nor write, yet in her own sphere she had no superior nor equal...Good Mother, farewell.”

Happy Juneteenth -
The Gravestone reads: ELIZABETH FREEMAN known by the name of MUMBET Died Dec 28, 1829 Her supposed age was 85 Years She was born a slave and remained a slave for nearly thirty years. She could neither read nor write, yet in her own sphere she had no superior nor equal. She neither wasted time nor property. She never violated a trust, nor failed to perform a duty. In every situation of domestic trial, she was the most efficient helper, and the tenderest friend. Good Mother, farewell.”
June 19, 2025 at 8:12 PM
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Elizabeth Freeman, also known as Mumbet, fought a legal battle for her freedom from slavery in 1700s Massachusetts.
Legal Battles: Elizabeth Freeman
Elizabeth Freeman, also known as Mumbet, fought a legal battle for her freedom from slavery in 1700s Massachusetts. Elizabeth had been born into slavery around 1744, and was given to her owner’s…
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February 25, 2026 at 8:15 PM
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Mumbet! There's a whole story of how free and enslaved Black residents, many in MA, quickly grabbed hold of the preamble language and used it to assert their rights to equal treatment (and to no taxation without voting rights). They understood it had depths that Jefferson probably didn't envision.
January 1, 2026 at 3:42 PM
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The 19th on Instagram: "250 years ago, in 1776, Elizabeth Freeman was an enslaved woman named Mumbet when she overheard Theodore Sedgwick talking with her enslaver at the dinner table in the home wher...
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April 22, 2026 at 9:21 PM
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#BlackWomensHistoryMonth: Elizabeth "Mumbet" Freeman, was one of the first enslaved African-Americans to file and win a freedom suit in Massachusetts. The Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court found slavery to be inconsistent with the 1780 Constitution of Massachusetts.
March 17, 2026 at 4:18 AM