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SHEFFIELD — If you asked someone in Sheffield on Sunday who Elizabeth Freeman was, you’d likely get some varied responses: “the grandmother of the civil rights movement,” “a heroine” and “a true inspiration” to name a few.

Immortalized in bronze, a statue of Freeman now stands beside the First Congregational Church at 125 Main Street, facing the historic Sedgwick House. Theodore Sedgwick was the lawyer who represented Freeman and another enslaved man named Brom in court as she sued for her freedom. She would spend the rest of her life in his employ.

Freeman was the first enslaved woman to use the Massachusetts Constitution to sue for her freedom after she heard it being discussed: namely, a passage stating that “All men are born free and equal” and have unalienable rights was one of the reasons she walked four miles from the residence of John Ashley to the Sedgwick House seeking representation.

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