The Library of Virginia, in partnership with Virginia Humanities, sponsors
residential fellows during the academic year to conduct in-depth research
in the Library’s collections. A widely-published public humanities scholar,
Lois Leveen may be best known as the author of the novel The Secrets of
Mary Bowser. During her autumn 2021 Virginia Humanities Fellowship, Leveen
conducted research for a nonfiction book, the first scholarly biography of
the real woman behind the “Mary Bowser” myth. Leveen explores
nineteenth-century African American activism more broadly in today's blog
post.

https://uncommonwealth.virginiamemory.com/blog/2022/02/02/beyond-mary-bowser-researching-writing-a-biography-of-black-activism-in-19th-century-america/

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