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Mumbet's Declaration of Independence

by Gretchen Woelfle

Mumbet’s pursuit of freedom in revolutionary Massachusetts

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Mumbet’s pursuit of freedom in revolutionary Massachusetts

Set against the era of the Declaration of Independence, Gretchen Woelfle’s picture-book biography centers Mumbet, an enslaved person in Massachusetts who believed in the right to freedom and sought to claim it for herself. Her struggle places the founding language of liberty beside the reality of slavery, connecting one woman’s effort to a broader history of abolition in the United States. The book presents Mumbet as an active figure in her own fight for freedom, making her story a way into questions about who was included in the nation’s early ideals.

Good fit for readers who enjoy

  • Children ages 9–12 interested in historical biographies
  • Readers exploring the American Revolution, slavery, and the history of freedom in the United States

Themes

Freedom and self-determinationSlavery and abolitionThe ideals of the American founding

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Book overview

"All men are born free and equal."

Everybody knows about the Founding Fathers and the Declaration of Independence in 1776. But the founders weren't the only ones who believed that everyone had a right to freedom. Mumbet, a Massachusetts enslaved person, believed it too. She longed to be free, but how? Would anyone help her in her fight for freedom? Could she win against the richest man in town?

Mumbet was determined to try.

Mumbet's Declaration of Independence tells her story for the first time in a picture book biography, and her brave actions set a milestone on the road toward ending slavery in the United States.

"The case is fascinating, emphasizing the destructive irony at the heart of the birth of America and making Mumbet an active and savvy architect of her own release, and this is likely to spur much discussion." --The Bulletin of the Center for Children's Books

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