Eighty years before the Emancipation Proclamation freed American slaves, a Massachusetts woman helped free the slaves of that state... just by going to court. Elizabeth Freeman (1742 - 1829) was among the first black slaves in Massachusetts to file a 'freedom suit' and win in court under the 1780 constitution, with a ruling that slavery was illegal.
Her county court case, Brom and Bett v. Ashley, decided in August 1781, was cited as a precedent in the Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court appeal review of Quock Walker's 'freedom suit.' When the state Supreme Court upheld Walker's freedom under the constitution, the ruling was considered to have informally ended slavery in the state.
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