This is a brief biography that explores the life of Mary Musgrove, an 18th century mixed-race woman who played a major role in colonial Georgia. This book is a part of Westview?s `Lives of American Women? series, edited by Carol Berkin. Each title in the series features brief biographies of figures whose lives serve as a lens onto a major trend, event, movement, or crisis of their eras, and whose stories will be the entry point for a deeper understanding of a particular historical time.