Mum Bett: There's no exchange for human dignity. part two
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Mum Bett becomes the first slave in Massachusetts to be declared free according to the state constitution.
click here to play audioMum Bett did what no woman had done previously in Massachusetts! In 1781 she, a female slave who could not read or write, went to court and sued her slave owner for her freedom. Her day in court was two hundred and thirty-eight years ago from the present year 2019. Massachusetts was still a colony.
No one forced Bett into court…
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