An 1824 legal clause in Missouri saw a number of slave challenge for freedom but Elizabeth Freeman was the first to challenge for her freedom in Massachusetts in 1781. Born in the early 1740s in Claverack, New York, she was originally named Bett. She lived on Hogeboom property for seven years  before being given away […]

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