BY WALTER OPINDE Who could ever imagine of a slave filing and winning a case in the U.S. Court of Law during the slavery or post-slavery era? Well, this lady- Mam Bett did it! Elizabeth Freeman, commonly referred to by some historians as Mum Bett or Mumbet, was the first African-American slave to file and […]
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