RACE STORIES: This Photo of a 7-Year-Old Girl Transformed the Abolition Movement

Abolitionists used a daguerreotype of Mary Mildred Williams, a light-skinned black girl born into slavery, to win over potentially sympathetic white Americans during the 19th century.

source https://www.nytimes.com/2019/03/07/lens/photo-abolition-movement-girl-in-black-and-white.html?partner=rss&emc=rss