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Jury Decides in Favor of Elizabeth
On this day in 1781, a jury in Great Barrington found in favor of Mum Bett, a black woman who had been a slave in the home of Colonel John Ashley for at least 30 years. Listening to her master's frien...
![Wikipedia article about "Gulf of Mexico": The Gulf of Mexico (Spanish: Golfo de México) is an oceanic basin and a marginal sea of the Atlantic Ocean,[3] mostly surrounded by the North American continent.[4] It is bounded on the northeast, north, and northwest by the Gulf Coast of the United States; on the southwest and south by the Mexican states of Tamaulipas, Veracruz, Tabasco, Campeche, Yucatán, and Quintana Roo; and on the southeast by Cuba.](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:exrxvyu6bpoym6mbnctke5tn/bafkreicweg4g3vc4n5ogvw4ummjhsy3y7q4wmvgdqsagystal5vbs6np2u)
