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Elizabeth Freeman

Reconstruction to Present (1865-)

Statue of Elizabeth Freeman, also known as Mumbet, who initiated a lawsuit that would lead to the abolition of slavery in Massachusetts.

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Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and Culture

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