Mary Bowser risked execution to infiltrate Jefferson Davis’s Richmond household. But she was never caught.
A monument to Jefferson Davis, president of the Confederacy, in Richmond, which served as its capital. By Michael S. Rosenwald Michael S. Rosenwald Enterprise reporter focusing on history, the social sciences, and culture. Email Bio Follow March 24 at 7:00 AM In early 1862, at the height of the Civil War, Confederate President Jefferson Davis became a very paranoid man.
“By playing to that stereotype, she becomes an intelligence agent and, therefore, proves the value of black intelligence at undermining the institution of slavery itself,” Lois Leveen, a historical novelist who based one of her books on Bowser, said while discussing the spy’s legacy in 2013 during a panel discussion at the Museum of the Confederacy in Richmond.
When she returned to Richmond, Bowser was arrested. It was illegal to return to a slave state after living in a free one. The Confederate White House, where Mary Bowser did her best spy work. The dresses held the messages. Bowser sewed them into the fabric.
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