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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.