Girl in black and white : the story of Mary Mildred Williams and the abolition movement

Girl in black and white : the story of Mary Mildred Williams and the abolition movement /

"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...

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Main Author: Morgan-Owens, Jessie (Author)
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: New York : W.W. Norton & Company, [2019]
Edition:First edition.
Subjects:
Williams, Mary Mildred, > 1847-1921.
Williams, Mary Mildred, > 1847-1921 > Family.
1800-1899
Enslaved children > United States > Biography.
Enslaved persons > 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.
Antislavery movements.
Enslaved children.
Colorism.
Families.
Photographs > Political aspects.
Race relations.
Racism.
Enslaved persons.
Family members.
Anti-enslavement movements > United States > History > 19th century.
Photographs.
United States > Race relations > History > 19th century.
United States.
Biographies.
History.
Nonfiction.

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