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The Stockbridge Library, Museum & Archives loaned the portrait of Agrippa Hull to the American Folk Art Museum for its new exhibit, “Unnamed Figures: Black Presence and Absence in the

Sheffield's Historical Society will host a series of events August 19 through 20 prior to the unveiling of a statue that will pay homage to Elizabeth "Mum Bett" Freeman, a slave who successfully sued for her freedom in 1781.

Harvard has vowed to confront its legacy of slavery. In 1783, Belinda Sutton was enslaved by a Harvard donor. Her story shows the horrors of the past.

On Aug 22, 1781, the court ordered that Mum Bett, later known as Elizabeth Freeman, should be emancipated from slavery. She was the first enslaved black woman to sue for her freedom and win.

Freeman was the first African American woman to successfully file a lawsuit for her freedom.

This is the story of a woman. In telling her story — from slave to free woman — we also tell the story of a place – from colony to

The key word in the title of Daniel Bullen’s “Daniel Shays’s Honorable Rebellion,” subtitled “An American Story,” is “Honorable.” It is Bullen’s contention that the grievously unfair portrayal of the

Frances Jones-Sneed, professor emerita, Massachusetts College of Liberal Arts, will present an online talk, "Elizabeth Mum Bett Freeman: From Slavery to Freedom," for the Osher Lifelong Learning Institute at Berkshire

Most students in the U.S. aren't taught about important people and events in Black history. Here are five that you probably never learned in school.

From a beach boardwalk to a historic home, money is coming to local projects throughout Massachusetts.