“Any time, 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' earth a free woman–I would”

In this episode, we learn the story of the resourceful, courageous, and intelligent Elizabeth Freeman - An woman enslaved in Massachusetts who learned from revolutionary writings of freedom and filed a lawsuit against the state to declare her own.