First Person Of Color Freed In Massachusettes
Elizabeth Freeman aka "Mumbet" the very first enslaved African American woman who fought for her freedom using the law as a card to pull on the government to get her freedom. Which favored in Elizabeth due to the inconsistency in the 1970 Massachusettes state constitution. (Brom and Bett v. Ashley (1781), was cited in the Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court appellate review of Quock Walker's freedom suit. When the court upheld Walker's freedom under the state's constitution, the ruling was considered to have implicitly ended slavery in Massachusetts." She did not only set as a role model to the other enslaved slaves during that time to get the motivation started to get other slaves free using a technique to sue against the government using their own law against them.
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