The “Freedom Architect” For a powerful Massachusetts story, Elizabeth Freeman is an icon of the Berkshires. She was an enslaved woman in Sheffield, MA, who did something revolutionary: she listened to the new Massachusetts Constitution being read and realized its words (“all men are born free and equal”) applied to her. She sued for her freedom in 1781 and won, effectively helping to end slavery in the state of Massachusetts through the legal system. Pioneer of “Social Justice Design,” someone who saw a flaw in the system and used the system’s own “branding” (the Constitution) to fix it. Post navigation 🎭 New Jersey: Allan Rohan Crite