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

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

Jessie Morgan-Owens

272 pages • first pub 2019 (view editions)

nonfiction biography history challenging informative slow-paced
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The riveting, little-known story of Mary Mildred Williams—a slave girl who looked “white”—whose photograph transformed the abolitionist movement.When a decades-long court battle resulted in her family’s freedom in 1855, seven-year-old Mary Mildred...

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