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Publisher
W.W. Norton & Company
Pub. Date
[2019]
Language
English
Description
The riveting, little-known story of Mary Mildred Williamsa 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...
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