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Girl in black and white : the story of Mary Mildred Williams and the abolition movement
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.
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New York :
W.W. Norton & Company,
[2019]
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| Edition: | First edition. |
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Table of 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.