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 ...

The Du Bois Freedom Center is partnering with the Massachusetts College of Art and Design and its Center for Art and Community Partnerships to create a portrait honoring Elizabeth Freeman, the first ...

Part of a series of profiles during Black History Month highlighting unsung African American figures from New England. As American colonists put pen to paper to determine the freedoms of the new ...