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Girl in Black and White : : the Story of Mary Mildred Williams and the Abolition Movement

Morgan-Owens, Jessie. Book - 2019 Black Studies 306.362 Mo 1 On Shelf No requests on this item Community Rating: 0 out of 5

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Prologue: Boston, May 29, 1855 -- Bondage. 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 -- Manumission. John Albion Andrew, Boston, 1852 -- Elizabeth Williams, Prince William County, 1852 -- Evelina Bell, Washington, February 1855 -- Becoming Ida May. Mary Hayden Green Pike, Calais, Maine, November 1854 -- Julian Vannerson, Washington, February 1855 -- Richard Hildreth, Boston, March 1855 -- Charles Sumner, Washington, February 1855 -- Sensation. "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 passages. 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.
Presents the story of slave Mary Mildred Williams, whose fair-skinned appearance rendered her the poster child of the American abolitionist movement and influenced the line where white sympathy was drawn and recognized.

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PUBLISHED
New York : W.W. Norton & Company, [2019]
Year Published: 2019
Description: 324 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm
Language: English
Format: Book

ISBN/STANDARD NUMBER
9780393609240
0393609243

SUBJECTS
Williams, Mary Mildred, -- 1847-1921.
Williams, Mary Mildred, -- 1847-1921 -- Family.
Enslaved children -- Biography.
Enslaved people -- Biography.
Photographs -- History -- 19th century.
Colorism.
Antislavery movements -- History -- 19th century.
Racism -- History -- 19th century.
United States -- History -- 19th century.