Dear Ellen Bee: A Civil War Scrapbook of Two Union Spies
by Mary E. Lyons
Category: Abolitionists

A scrapbook kept by a young black girl details her experiences and those of the older white woman, "Miss Bet," who had freed her and her family, sent her north from Richmond to get an education, and then worked to bring an end to slavery. Based on the life of Elizabeth Van Lew.