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Whig reported “Mary Jones, alias Mary Jane Henley a likely mulatto girl, about twenty years of age, arrested for being without free papers, was committed for nine days. She was sent to the North about nine years ago, by a highly respectable lady of this city, for the purpose of receiving a thorough education, after completing which she went to Liberia.” The article asserted, “The laws of Virginia positively prohibit the return to this State of any free negro who has lived in a free State,” yet Richards remained in Richmond. This may have been because her freedom was likely de facto, not de jure both Virginia law and stipulations in John Van Lew’s will made it difficult for the Van Lew family to free any of their slaves. If this was indeed the case, Richards likely experienced both the protection of and continued subjection to the Van Lew family. On August 30, at the end of her jail term, the ....
Elizabeth Bowser: Mary Van Lew, An African-American Slave 161 Words1 Page Elizabeth Bowser an African American slave. later in her life with the help of Mary Van Lew became a spy for the Union army. Born as Mary Elizabeth Richards sometime around the year 1839, she was a slave of John Van Lew of Virginia. In the 1840 - 50âs, when John Van Lew died, Mary Elizabeth was moved to serve the Davis family, that is, the family of the Confederate President Jefferson Davis for part time. This soon led to a full time position at the Confederate White House in Richmond. During Mary Elizabeth Bowserâs time there, she used her education and photographic memory to help gather intelligence by reading military documents left on top of desks or tables and eavesdropping on people s conversations. Bowser then delivered the information ....