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Girl in Black and White - The Story of Mary Mildred Williams and the Abolition Movement (Hardcover)
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Girl in Black and White - The Story of Mary Mildred Williams and the Abolition Movement (Hardcover)
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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. Famous abolitionists Thomas Wentworth
Higginson, Henry David Thoreau, and John Albion Andrew would help
Mary and her family in freedom, but Senator Charles Sumner saw a
monumental political opportunity. Due to generations of sexual
violence, Mary's skin was so light that she "passed" as white, and
this fact would make her the key to his white audience's sympathy.
During his sold-out abolitionist lecture series, Sumner paraded
Mary in front of rapt audiences as evidence that slavery was not
bounded by race. 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 follows Mary's story
through the lives of her determined mother and grandmother to her
own adulthood, parallel to the story of the antislavery movement
and the eventual signing of the Emancipation Proclamation. Girl in
Black and White restores Mary to her rightful place in 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 expose 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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