What Is Mary Van Loo's Name?

Mary van loo was the slave of a wealthy hardware merchant in richmond, virginia. After his death she convinced her mother to free nine of the family slaves. She also supposedly bought the relatives of those slaves and freed them too. Mary did return to richmond before the war started but took up with the van loo household again. This time it was to help nurse wounded union soldiers in libby pr on. And she would carry letters and messages in and out of the prison. The way she'd do this was pretty clever: hide them in books or in the bottom of a food pan,. Then relay those messages to on officers. Yeand later, when she died,