A Berkshire County icon is one of two women to be honored with a bust in the Massachusetts Senate Chamber for the first time ...

At a time of immense change in the United States, Elizabeth Freeman served as a beacon of hope for enslaved people everywhere ...

A bust of Berkshires' freedom fighter Elizabeth Freeman, the first enslaved woman to successfully sue for her freedom in the ...

STOCKBRIDGE — Lisa Shepperson fluttered her eyelashes to stop her tears as she stood at the faded tombstone of Elizabeth Freeman on Monday morning. She patted the centuries-old tablet with her ...

Whether by accident or design, the contributions of women who have shaped our Commonwealth and nation have too long been ...

Elizabeth Freeman was probably born in 1742, to enslaved African parents in Claverack, New York. At the age of six months she was purchased, along with her sister, by John Ashley of Sheffield ...

click image for close-up When Elizabeth Freeman was nearly 70 years old, Susan Ridley Sedgewick painted a miniature portrait of her in watercolor on ivory. Sedgewick was the young wife of Theodore ...