For nearly 30 years Mumbet served the Ashley family.One day，Ashley's wife tried to strike Mumbet's sister with a spade.Mumbet protected her sister and took the blow instead.Furious，she left the house and refused to come back.When the Ashleys tried to make her return，Mumbet consulted a lawyer，Theodore Sedgewick.With his help，Mumbet sued(起诉) for her freedom.

　　she thought it should apply to her.Eventually，Mumbet won her freedom—the first slave in Massachusetts to do so under the new constitution.

　　Strangely enough，after the trial，the Ashleys asked Mumbet to come back and work for them as a paid employee.She declined and instead went to work for Sedgewick.Mumbet died in 1829，but her legacy lived on in her many descendants(后裔).One of her great－grandchildren was .E.B.Du Bois，one of the founders of the NAACP，and an important writer and spokesperson for African American civil rights.

　　Mumbet's tombstone still stands in the Massachusetts cemetery where she was buried.It reads，in part：“She was born a slave and remained a slave for nearly thirty years.She could neither read nor writeerior or equal.”

　　【语篇导读】　本文是一篇记叙文论述了黑人奴隶为争取自由而与生命抗争的故事。

　　A.She was born a slave.

　　B.She was a slaveholder.

　　C.She had a famous sister.

　　D.She was born into a rich family.

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