Girl in black and white : the story of Mary Mildred Williams and the abolition movement
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Published
New York : W.W. Norton & Company, [2019].
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
324 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm
Status
Adult Biography
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LC Subjects
Antislavery movements -- United States -- History -- 19th century.
Child slaves -- United States -- Biography.
Colorism -- United States.
Photographs -- Political aspects -- United States -- History -- 19th century.
Racism -- United States -- History -- 19th century.
Slaves -- United States -- Biography.
United States -- Race relations -- History -- 19th century.
Williams, Mary Mildred, -- 1847-1921 -- Family.
Williams, Mary Mildred, -- 1847-1921.
Child slaves -- United States -- Biography.
Colorism -- United States.
Photographs -- Political aspects -- United States -- History -- 19th century.
Racism -- United States -- History -- 19th century.
Slaves -- United States -- Biography.
United States -- Race relations -- History -- 19th century.
Williams, Mary Mildred, -- 1847-1921 -- Family.
Williams, Mary Mildred, -- 1847-1921.
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Published
New York : W.W. Norton & Company, [2019].
Format
Book
Edition
First edition.
Language
English
Notes
Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Description
"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 expos�e 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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APA Citation, 7th Edition (style guide)
Morgan-Owens, J. (2019). Girl in black and white: the story of Mary Mildred Williams and the abolition movement (First edition.). W.W. Norton & Company.
Chicago / Turabian - Author Date Citation, 17th Edition (style guide)Morgan-Owens, Jessie. 2019. Girl in Black and White: The Story of Mary Mildred Williams and the Abolition Movement. W.W. Norton & Company.
Chicago / Turabian - Humanities (Notes and Bibliography) Citation, 17th Edition (style guide)Morgan-Owens, Jessie. Girl in Black and White: The Story of Mary Mildred Williams and the Abolition Movement W.W. Norton & Company, 2019.
MLA Citation, 9th Edition (style guide)Morgan-Owens, Jessie. Girl in Black and White: The Story of Mary Mildred Williams and the Abolition Movement First edition., W.W. Norton & Company, 2019.
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