page_title: Mary Mildred Williams
hierarchical_section_title: Mary Mildred Williams
caption_attribution_description: English: Mary Mildred Botts a young "white slave" (or perhaps octaroon) who appeared with Senator Charles Sumner on an abolition platform in 1855.
context_page_description: Mary Mildred Williams was an enslaved American born in Virginia, later freed through the efforts of her father. Based on the public perception of her as a white child after photographs of her were published in the press, she was compared to the fictional character of Ida May and used by abolitionists before the Civil War to advance the cause of ending slavery in the United States.
context_section_description: Mary Mildred Williams (born Botts, c. 1847 - 1921) was an enslaved American born in Virginia, later freed through the efforts of her father. Based on the public perception of her as a white child after photographs of her were published in the press, she was compared to the fictional character of Ida May and used by abolitionists before the Civil War to advance the cause of ending slavery in the United States.
caption: Mary Botts, daguerreotype. Julian Vannerson, c. 1855. Massachusetts Historical Society.
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