Girl in Black and White: The Story of Mary Mildred Williams and the Abolition Movement

Girl in Black and White: The Story of Mary Mildred Williams and the Abolition Movement
Author :
Publisher : W. W. Norton & Company
Total Pages : 279
Release :
ISBN-10 : 9780393609257
ISBN-13 : 0393609251
Rating : 4/5 (251 Downloads)

Book Synopsis Girl in Black and White: The Story of Mary Mildred Williams and the Abolition Movement by : Jessie Morgan-Owens

Download or read book Girl in Black and White: The Story of Mary Mildred Williams and the Abolition Movement written by Jessie Morgan-Owens and published by W. W. Norton & Company. This book was released on 2019-03-12 with total page 279 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An “engrossing narrative history” (Joanna Scutts, The Lily) of the enslaved girl whose photograph transformed the abolition 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. Due to generations of sexual violence, Mary’s skin was so light she “passed” as white—a fact abolitionist Senator Charles Sumner knew would be the key to his white audience’s sympathy. Girl in Black and White restores Mary to her rightful place in history, “probing issues of colorism and racial politics” (New York Times Book Review) that still affect us profoundly today.


Girl in Black and White: The Story of Mary Mildred Williams and the Abolition Movement Related Books

Girl in Black and White: The Story of Mary Mildred Williams and the Abolition Movement
Language: en
Pages: 279
Authors: Jessie Morgan-Owens
Categories: History
Type: BOOK - Published: 2019-03-12 - Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company

DOWNLOAD EBOOK

An “engrossing narrative history” (Joanna Scutts, The Lily) of the enslaved girl whose photograph transformed the abolition movement. When a decades-long co
Feminism for the Americas
Language: en
Pages: 367
Authors: Katherine M. Marino
Categories: Social Science
Type: BOOK - Published: 2019-02-05 - Publisher: UNC Press Books

DOWNLOAD EBOOK

This book chronicles the dawn of the global movement for women's rights in the first decades of the twentieth century. The founding mothers of this movement wer
Ida May
Language: en
Pages: 490
Authors: Mary Hayden (Green) Pike
Categories:
Type: BOOK - Published: 1854 - Publisher:

DOWNLOAD EBOOK

Imperfect Union
Language: en
Pages: 490
Authors: Steve Inskeep
Categories: Biography & Autobiography
Type: BOOK - Published: 2021-01-05 - Publisher: Penguin

DOWNLOAD EBOOK

Steve Inskeep tells the riveting story of John and Jessie Frémont, the husband and wife team who in the 1800s were instrumental in the westward expansion of th
Gendered Resistance
Language: en
Pages: 257
Authors: Mary E. Frederickson
Categories: Social Science
Type: BOOK - Published: 2013-10-30 - Publisher: University of Illinois Press

DOWNLOAD EBOOK

Inspired by the searing story of Margaret Garner, the escaped slave who in 1856 slit her daughter's throat rather than have her forced back into slavery, the es