Berkshire Eagle

'Won’t the law give me my freedom?': Elizabeth Freeman enters the Statehouse

The state Senate is planning to commission what Dennis Powell, the president of the NAACP Berkshires, considers “the most significant bust in its history.” The bust will honor Elizabeth Freeman, whose ...
WAMC

Elizabeth Freeman to be one of first two women, first person from Western Massachusetts immortalized in State Senate chambers

A Berkshire County icon is one of two women to be honored with a bust in the Massachusetts Senate Chamber for the first time in its history. When it comes to pomp and circumstance, the Massachusetts ...
NBC Washington

Massachusetts Statue Honors Elizabeth Freeman, a Once-Enslaved Woman Who Won Freedom in Court

The story of an enslaved woman who went to court to win her freedom more than 80 years before the Emancipation Proclamation had been pushed to the fringes of history. A group of civic leaders, ...
The Boston Globe

More than a name: How Elizabeth Freeman declared her independence and helped end slavery in Massachusetts

Part of a series of profiles during Black History Month highlighting unsung African American figures from New England. As American colonists put pen to paper to determine the freedoms of the new ...