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In The 1700s An Enslaved Massachusetts Woman Sued For Her Freedom — And Won

Nancy Eve Cohen, Nancy Eve Cohen

Elizabeth Freeman used the colonists' ideas of equality and independence to sue for her freedom. Her lawyer was Theodore Sedgwick, who would later become speaker of the U.S. House of Representatives.