Elizabeth Freeman on privilege1

Statue of Elizabeth Freeman (known as Mumbet) who sued and won her freedom in 18th-century Massachusetts

“Any time, any time while I was a slave, if one minute’s freedom had been offered to me, and I had been told I must die at the end of that minute, I would have taken it—just to stand one minute on God’s airth a free women—I would.”

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