Elizabeth "Mum Bett" Freeman of Stockbridge, Massachusetts, Was the First Slave to Win Her Freedom in Court on Human Rights Grounds. [...] "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 Earth A Free Woman. - Celebrate People's History