Everybody knows about the Founding Fathers and the Declaration of Independence in 1776. But the founders weren't the only ones who believed that everyone had a right to freedom. Mumbet, a Massachusetts slave, believed it too. She longed to be free, but how? Would anyone help her in her fight for freedom? Could she win against her owner, the richest man in town?
This book tells the story of a Massachusetts slave from the Revolutionary era. In 1781, she successfully used the new Massachusetts Constitution to make a legal case that she should be free.
- ISBN10 0761365893
- ISBN13 9780761365891
- Publish Date 1 February 2014 (first published 1 January 2014)
- Publish Status Active
- Publish Country US
- Publisher Lerner Publishing Group
- Imprint Carolrhoda
- Format Hardcover
- Pages 32
- Language English