| Edition |
First edition. |
| Description |
324 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 287-309) and index. |
| 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. |
| Subject |
Enslaved persons -- United States -- Biography.
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Colorism -- United States.
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Antislavery movements -- United States -- History -- 19th century.
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Photographs -- Political aspects -- United States -- History -- 19th century.
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HISTORY / African American.
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United States -- Race relations -- History -- 19th century.
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Williams, Mary Mildred, 1847-1921 -- Family.
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HISTORY / United States / 19th Century.
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Racism -- United States -- History -- 19th century.
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Williams, Mary Mildred, 1847-1921.
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Enslaved children -- United States -- Biography.
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PHOTOGRAPHY / History.
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SOCIAL SCIENCE / Slavery.
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| ISBN |
9780393609240 (hardcover) |
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0393609243 (hardcover) |
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