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Morgan-Owens, Jessie author.
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Williams, Mary Mildred, 1847-1921.
Williams, Mary Mildred, 1847-1921 -- Family.
Child slaves -- United States -- Biography.
Slaves -- United States -- Biography.
Photographs -- Political aspects -- United States -- History -- 19th century.
Colorism -- United States.
Antislavery movements -- United States -- History -- 19th century.
Racism -- United States -- History -- 19th century.
United States -- Race relations -- History -- 19th century.
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Girl in black and wh...
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Girl in black and white : the story of
Mary
Mildred
Williams
and the abolition movement / Jessie Morgan-Owens.
by
Morgan-Owens, Jessie author.
Subjects
Williams
,
Mary
Mildred
,
1847-1921
.
Williams
,
Mary
Mildred
,
1847-1921
--
Family
.
Child slaves
--
United States
--
Biography.
Slaves
--
United States
--
Biography.
Photographs
--
Political aspects
--
United States
--
History
--
19th century.
Colorism
--
United States.
Antislavery movements
--
United States
--
History
--
19th century.
Racism
--
United States
--
History
--
19th century.
United States
--
Race relations
--
History
--
19th century.
Publisher Info:
New York : W.W. Norton & Company, [2019]
Edition:
First edition.
Description:
324 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm
RDA Types:
text
unmediated
volume
ISBN:
9780393609240
0393609243
Contents:
Prologue: Boston, May 29, 1855
--
Constance Cornwell, Prince William County, Virginia, 1805
--
Prudence Nelson Bell, Nelson's Plantation and Mill, 1826
--
Jesse and Albert Bell Nelson, Washington, 1847
--
Henry
Williams
, Boston, 1850
--
John Albion Andrew, Boston, 1852
--
Elizabeth
Williams
, Prince William County, 1852
--
Evelina Bell, Washington, February 1855
--
Mary
Hayden Green Pike, Calais, Maine, November 1854
--
Julian Vannerson, Washington, February 1855
--
Richard Hildreth, Boston, March 1855
--
Charles Sumner, Washington, February 1855
--
"A white slave from Virginia," New York, March 1855
--
The
Williams
family
, Boston, March 7, 1855
--
"Features, skin, and hair," Boston, March 1855
--
Thomas Wentworth Higginson, Worcester, Massachusetts, March 27, 1855
--
"The antislavery enterprise," Boston, March 29, 1855
--
Private life, Boston, October 1855
--
"The crime against Kansas," Washington, May 1856
--
Frederick Douglass, Boston, 1860
--
Prudence Bell, Plymouth County, Massachusetts, 1864
--
Epilogue: Hyde Park, Massachusetts, 2017.
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Summary:
"The riveting, little-known story of
Mary
Mildred
Williams--a slave girl who looked 'white'--whose photograph transformed the abolitionist movement. When a decades-long court battle resulted in her
family
's freedom in 1855, seven-year-old
Mary
Mildred
Williams
unexpectedly became the face of American slavery. During a sold-out abolitionist lecture series, Senator Charles Sumner paraded
Mary
in front of rapt audiences as evidence that slavery knew no bounds. Weaving together long-overlooked primary sources and arresting images, including the daguerreotype that turned
Mary
into the poster child of a movement, Jessie Morgan-Owens investigates tangled generations of sexual enslavement and the fraught politics that led
Mary
to Sumner. She restores
Mary
's story to history and uncovers a dramatic narrative of travels along the Underground Railroad, relationships tested by oppression, and the struggles of life after emancipation. The result is an exposé of the thorny racial politics of the abolitionist movement and the pervasive colorism that dictated where white sympathy lay--one that sheds light on a shameful legacy that still affects us profoundly today"
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