Elizabeth Freeman was born about 1742 to African American parents who were slaves. At the age of six months she was acquired, along with her sister, by John Ashley, a wealthy Massachusetts slaveholders. She became known as "Mumbet" or "Mum Bett." 

For nearly 30 years Mumbet served the Ashley family. One day, Ashley's wife tried to strike Mumbet's sister with a spade. Mumbet protected her sister and took the blow instead. Furious, she left the house and refused to come back. When the Ashleys tried to make her return, Mumbet consulted a lawyer, Theodore Sedgewick. With his help, Mumbet sued for her freedom. 

While serving the Ashleys, Mumbet had listened to many discussions of the new Massachusetts constitution. If the constitution said that all people were free and equal, then she thought it should apply to her. Eventually, Mumbet won her freedom---- the first slave in Massachusetts to do so under the new constitution. 

Strangely enough, after the trial, the Ashleys asked Mumbet to come back and work for them as a paid employee. She declined and instead went to work for Segdewick. Mumbet died in 1829, but her legacy lived on in her many descendants . One of her great-grandchildren was W.E.B. Du Bois, one of the founder of the NAACP, and an important writer and spokesperson for African American civil rights. 

Mumbet's tombstone still stands in the Massachusetts cemetery where she was buried. It reads, in part: "She was born a slave and remained a slave and remained a slave for nearly thirty years. She could neither read nor write, yet in her own sphere she had no superior or equal." QUESTIONS:

Q1:
1. Where is Mumbet's headstone?
2. Where is the headstone of an important freedom fighter?
3. What is the location of Mumbet's headstone?
Q2:
1. Who has a headstone in the Massachusetts cemetary?
2. Who was laid to rest in a Massachusetts cemetary?
3. Whose grave can be found in a Massachusetts cemetary?
Q3:
1. How long does Mumbet's headstone say she was not free?
2. For how long was Mumbet not free, according to her headstone?
3. For what length of time did Mumbet go without her freedom, said her headstone?
Q4:
1. What was the full name of Mumbet?
2. What full real name did Mumbet have?
3. What was Mumbet's full name?
Q5:
1. What was Mumbet's birth year?
2. In what year was Mumbet born?
3. In what year did Mumbet come into the world?
Q6:
1. At what age was Mumbet purchased?
2. How old was Mumbet when she was bought?
3. What was Mumbet's age when someone bought her?
Q7:
1. What was the name of the man who bought Mumbet?
2. Who was Mumbet purchased by?
3. Who was the man that purchased Mumbet?
Q8:
1. Did John Ashley uniquely purchase Mumbet?
2. Was Mumbet the only person that John Ashley bought?
3. Did John Ashley acquire just Mumbet?
Q9:
1. Who did John Ashley buy along with Mumbet?
2. Who was bought by John Ashley in addition to Mumbet?
3. Who along with Mumbet got purchased by John Ashley?
Q10:
1. How many nicknames did Mumbet have?
2. What was the number of nicknames given to Elizabeth Freeman?
3. How many nicknames did Elizabeth Freeman go by?
Q11:
1. What were Elizabeth Freeman's nicknames?
2. What nicknames did Elizabeth Freeman go by?
3. By what other names was Elizabeth Freeman referred to?
Q12:
1. Did Mumbet have kind and non violent owners?
2. Did the people who owned Mumbet treat her with peace and respect?
3. Did Mumbet receive kindly and calm treatment from those to whom she belonged?
Q13:
1. What proved that Mumbet's owners were cruel?
2. What was an example of the cruelty of the people who owned Mumbet?
3. How do we know that the people who bought Mumbet were not nice people?
Q14:
1. How did Mumbet respond to the blows of her owner's wife?
2. What did Mumbet do when Mrs. Ashley tried to strike her sister?
3. How did Mumbet react when Mrs. Ashely attempted to strike her sister?
Q15:
1. What did Mumbet do after protecting her sister?
2. What did Mumbet do after she had protected her sister?
3. Once her sister was safe from harm, what did Elizabeth Freeman do?
Q16:
1. What did Mumbet do that was out of the ordinary after the incident with her owners?
2. After the scuffle with her owners, what unusual action did Mumbet take?
3. After getting into an altercation with the people that owned her, what unusual thing did Mumbet do?
Q17:
1. Did Mumbet do anything else besides leaving the house?
2. What did Mumbet do after the fight with her owner besides leave the house?
3. What did Mumbet do that went a step further from leaving her owner's house after they struck her?
Q18:
1. Who did Mumbet speak to about her owners' treatment of her?
2. Who did Mumbet talk to about the way the people who owned her treated her?
3. Who did Mumbet have a conversation with regarding the violence of her owners?
Q19:
1. Did Mumbet sue her owners?
2. Did Elizabeth Freeman bring a case against her owners?
3. Did Elizabeth Freeman take the people that owned her to court?
Q20:
1. What first time event did Mumbet's trial result in?
2. What happened for the first time when Mumbet took her owners to court?
3. What was the never before seen result of Mumbet taking her owners to court?
