Mumbet’s Declaration of Independence Zinn Education Project

» Mumbet’s Declaration of Independence Zinn Education Project

Mumbet’s Declaration of Independence
gives young readers a slavery-to-freedom narrative that is clever,
honest, and age appropriate. Gretchen Woelfle’s recounting of Elizabeth
Freeman’s true story of resistance and liberation is smartly written and
beautifully illustrated. Readers are introduced to Mumbet, a black
woman enslaved in Massachusetts at the time of the Declaration of
Independence in 1776.