children and all her descendants who followed. >> there was a law back in 1705 that declared that all children that are enslaved or free, their condition would be based on whatever their mother was. >> remember, sarah and bess arrived free people. >> so sarah has a raw suit that's filed saying we're free. >> this is the actual lawsuit filed by sarah suing for her freedom and for the freedom of her descendants, and that deposition was from a witness who saw mary and bess arrive decades earlier. >> so in 1791 the court appear the can sarah and her chirp and grand chirp and all of those relatives who were descendants of mary and bess are going to be free. >> that my ancestors filed and sued for their freedom, it is