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Any Time, any Time while I was a Slave, if one Minutes Freedom had been offered to me, and I had been told I must die at the End of that Minute, I would have taken it—just to stand one Minute on Gods Airth [sic] a free Woman— I would. —Elizabeth Freeman. The Case of Brom and Bett vs. Ashley was heard in August 1781 before the County Court of Common Pleas in Great Barrington, Massachussetts. Bett was represented by the Counsel of Theodore Sedgwick, a young abolition-minded Lawyer, and Tapping Reeve, the Founder of Americas first law School. They asserted that the state constitutional Provision that all Men are born free and equal effectively abolished Slavery in the State. When the Jury ruled in Betts Favor, she became the first African-American Woman to be set free under the Massachusetts state Constitution.
Posted on: Thu, 31 Oct 2013 02:42:54 +0000

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