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Tapping Reeve and Mumbet: Abolishing Slavery in Massachusetts

by Suzanne Geissler Bowles | Colonial & Early National (1746-1820)

Tapping Reeve (1744-1823), Princeton alumnus and founder of the nation’s first law school, served as co-counsel in the 1781 case Brom and Bett v. J. Ashley, Esq., which led to the abolition of slavery in Massachusetts.
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