Title: Dear Ellen Bee
Description: 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.
Subjects: Scrapbooks, Juvenile fiction, Slavery, Fiction, United States, United States Civil War, 1861-1865, History, Abolitionists, Children's fiction, Abolitionists, fiction, United states, history, fiction, Slavery, fiction
Places: United States
People: Elizabeth L. Van Lew (1818-1900)
Time periods: 1849-1877, Civil War, 1861-1865