Elizabeth “Mumbet” Freeman This watercolor portrait of Elizabeth “Mumbet” Freeman was painted on ivory by Susan Anne Ridley Sedgwick in 1811 when Freeman was sixty-nine. The first slave to be freed in Massachusetts as a result of a court case, she later worked as a domestic servant for her attorney, Theodore Sedgwick, Susan Ridley Sedgwick’s father-in-law. © Massachusetts Historical Society, Boston/The Bridgeman Art Library