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Girl In Black And White Jessie Morganowens

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Girl In Black And White Jessie Morganowens
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Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company
File Extension: EPUB
File size: 14.94 MB
Author: Jessie Morgan-Owens
Language: English
Year: 2019

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Girl In Black And White Jessie Morganowens by Jessie Morgan-owens instant download after payment.

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 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...

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