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Elizabeth Freeman Way is now a street in Great Barrington. Next tribute is a mural downtown.

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Colonial reenactors, military demonstrations, games, and fireworks are all on tap for the 33rd American Independence Festival.

NORTHAMPTON — As they studied a well-known 18th-century painting, titled “The Death of General Warren at the Battle of Bunker’s Hill” by American artist John Trumbull, the fifth graders in teacher Roxanne Nieman’s class at Leeds Elementary School were...

Its okay to celebrate Black History Month.

Immortalized in bronze, a statue of Elizabeth Freeman now stands beside the First Congregational Church at 125 Main Street in Sheffield, facing the historic Sedgwick House.

Her story has been told in books, a painting, and on the epitaph of her gravestone. But how much of Elizabeth Freemans history do we really know?

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.