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She Spied for Freedom

English

By (author): Margaret C. Jones

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 educated in the North, she was sent to Africa as a teenage missionary. On her return to the American South in wartime, she was recruited as a Union spy and sent on her dangerous mission to the 'Confederate White House'. She risked her life again after the war, teaching freed former slaves in rural Georgia, in the face of growing threats from the Ku Klux Klan. 'She Spied for Freedom' is about those who shaped Richards' world-among them, her benefactor and spymaster, Elizabeth Van Lew; her fellow agents; her three husbands; and those, like Jefferson Davis and his wife, she dealt with in the camp of the enemy. 'She Spied for Freedom' is the story of a lone warrior for justice who faced poverty, illness, brutal racism, and life-threatening danger-but never surrendered. See more
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Product Details
  • Weight: 396g
  • Dimensions: 156 x 234mm
  • Publication Date: 21 Mar 2024
  • Publisher: Fonthill Media Ltd
  • Publication City/Country: GB
  • Language: English
  • ISBN13: 9781781559192

About Margaret C. Jones

Margaret C. Jones lived in the U.S. for nine years and taught literature and history at Central Washington University (1990-92). She later lived in Bristol, UK, employed as a senior lecturer at the University of the West of England. Her PhD (in American studies) is from Purdue University, Indiana. She has published three biographies: The Adventurous Life of Amelia Edwards (Bloomsbury, 2022); Founder, Fighter, Saxon Queen: Aethelflaed, Lady of the Mercians (Pen & Sword, 2018); Heretics and Hellraisers (U. of Texas Press, 1993). She lives and writes in Stroud, UK, but spends part of each year in Alexandria, Egypt.

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