Girl in black and white : the story of Mary Mildred Williams and the abolition movement
Morgan-Owens, Jessie2019
Book
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 recognised.
Main title:
Girl in black and white : the story of Mary Mildred Williams and the abolition movement / Jessie Morgan-Owens.
Author:
Morgan-Owens, Jessie, author
Edition:
First edition.
Imprint:
New York : W.W. Norton & Company, [2019]©2019
Collation:
324 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm.
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.
ISBN:
9780393609240 (hardback)
Dewey class:
306.362092B306.362
Language:
English
Subject:
Williams, Mary Mildred, 1847-1921Williams, Mary Mildred, 1847-1921 -- FamilyChild slaves -- United States -- BiographySlaves -- United States -- BiographyPhotographs -- Political aspects -- United States -- History -- 19th centuryColorism -- United StatesAntislavery movements -- United States -- History -- 19th centuryRacism -- United States -- History -- 19th centuryUnited States -- Race relations -- History -- 19th century
BRN:
355021