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Girl in black and white : the story of Mary Mildred Williams and the abolition movement Jessie Morgan-Owens
Historical Society of Pennsylvania - Closed Stacks E 444 .W746 M67 2019
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Morgan-Owens, Jessie, author.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Williams, Mary Mildred, 1847-1921.
- Williams, Mary Mildred.
- Williams, Mary Mildred, 1847-1921--Family.
- Enslaved children--United States--Biography.
- Enslaved children.
- Enslaved persons--United States--Biography.
- Enslaved persons.
- Photographs--Political aspects--United States--History--19th century.
- Photographs.
- Colorism--United States.
- Colorism.
- Antislavery movements--United States--History--19th century.
- Antislavery movements.
- Racism--United States--History--19th century.
- Racism.
- United States--Race relations--History--19th century.
- United States.
- Physical Description:
- 324 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm
- Edition:
- First edition.
- Place of Publication:
- New York : W.W. Norton & Company, [2019]
- 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.
- Contents:
- 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.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 287-309) and index.
- Local Notes:
- The Pennsylvania Abolition Society Complementary Collection.
- ISBN:
- 9780393609240 (hardcover)
- 0393609243 (hardcover)
- OCLC:
- 1087508015
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