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Author:

Morgan-Owens, Jessie, author.

Title:

Girl in black and white : the story of Mary Mildred Williams and the abolition movement / Jessie Morgan-Owens.

Edition:

First edition.

Publisher:

W.W. Norton & Company,

Copyright Date:

2019

Description:

324 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm

Subject:

Williams, Mary Mildred,--1847-1921.
Williams, Mary Mildred,--1847-1921--Family.
Child slaves--United States--Biography.
Slaves--United States--Biography.
Photographs--History--United States--History--19th century.
Colorism--United States.
Antislavery movements--United States--History--19th century.
Racism--United States--History--19th century.
United States--History--History--19th century.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages 287-309) and index.

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.

Summary:

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.

ISBN:

0393609243 (hardcover)
9780393609240 (hardcover)

OCLC:

(OCoLC)1087508015

LCCN:

2018053655

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