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Girl in Black and White snowglobe Highsmith photograph of the glassWhen a decades long court battle resulted in her familys 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, Marys skin was so light that she passed as white,