Mumbet is without a doubt the first black woman in the United States to be set free from enslavement due in large part to her own determination and character. After Mumbet was set free she chose the name Elizabeth Freeman and began working in the Theodore Sedgwick family as a paid servant, first in Sheffield, and later, when the family moved to ...

Mumbet lives in the household as a free servant and substitute mother for Theodore’s children who named Elizabeth Freeman affectionately ‘Mumbet.’ The first episode takes place in 1811. Mumbet is 70 years old and will tell her story, narrating each episode in flashbacks.

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Since 1999 mumbet.com is the official site for Elizabeth Mumbet Freeman, one of the first black women to win freedom in the USA, at the very least the first black woman to win her freedom in Massachusetts. The webmaster lived in Housatonic and Great Barrington for almost ten years and became acquainted with the story of Mumbet, visited the ...

Octavia Spencer to Executive Produce Anti-Slavery Movie ‘Mumbet’ (EXCLUSIVE), Variety. Octavia Spencer has an uncanny resemblance to Mumbet. Photo courtesy of Act and Shadow. Octavia Spencer is quoted as saying, “I’m really drawn to stories that haven’t really been told,” Women and Hollywood

Technically the will doesn’t reveal if Elizabeth Freeman was married, but it does reveal the names of her daughter, grand daughter, grandchildren, and great-grandchildren. There are many theories of who the father of Mumbet’s child, Elizabeth, is, but so far nothing substantial to know for sure.

http://www.mumbet.com. A transcript of the above court record can be read on pages 150 thru 152 in the book, Women and Slavery in America: A Documentary History edited by Catherine M. Lewis, J. Richard Lewis, acknowledging mumbet.com as the source.

Elizabeth “Mumbet” Freeman ( ca. 1744-1829) 1811 Watercolor on ivory by Susan Anne Livingston Ridley Sedgwick (1788-1867) 3 in. (7.5 cm) x 2 1/8 in. (5.5 cm) Gift of Maria Banyer Sedgwick, 1884. Original watercolor at the Massachusetts Historical Society, 1154 Boylston Street, Boston, Massachusett.

Mumbet’s grave is located in the Sedgwick Pie, in Stockbridge. Massachusetts as seen below on a winter’s day. Mumbet’s grave on the left, Catharine Maria Sedgwick in the center, Charles Sedgwick on the right. Mumbet’s grave on the left and …

Included below are books about Mumbet, Catharine Maria Sedgwick, Theodore Sedgwick and Tapping Reeve if you continue scrolling down. Mumbet Books