She Spied for Freedom: Mary Richards, A Black Civil War Agent

Tells the story of Mary Richards, a Union spy who posed as an illiterate slave during the American Civil War.

During the American Civil War, an educated Black woman posed as an illiterate slave in the home of the rebel President Jefferson Davis. Spying on the war councils of Davis and his advisers, she risked her life to send vital intelligence to the U.S. military. This was Mary Richards' one-woman fight in the ongoing battle to end slavery. Born into slavery herself but freed to be educate...