Nor was it awe of her kind master, or fear of her despotic mistress, but it was the galling of the harness, the irresistible longing for liberty. I can imagine her upright form, as she stood dilating with her fresh hope based on the declaration of an intrinsic, inalienable right. Her application was made to one who had generosity as well as intelligence to meet it. It was the first practical construction in Massachusetts of the declaration which ahs been to the black race a constitutional abstraction, and on this decision was based the freedom of the few slaves remaining in Massachusetts. Mum-Bett immediately transferred herself to the service of her champion, if service that could be called, which was quite as much rule as service.
Wider abuses make rebels.
Soon after the close of the war, there was some resistance to the administration of the newly organised State Government in Massachusetts.