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Running a Thousand Miles for Freedom

by William Craft, Ellen Craft

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1860
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In 1848 William and Ellen Craft made one of the boldest escapes from American slavery on record, and this is their own account of it. Ellen, light-skinned enough to pass as white, disguised herself as an ailing young gentleman travelling with his enslaved manservant, played by her husband, and together they journeyed openly by train and steamer from Georgia to freedom in the North. Published in 1860, the narrative recounts the near-misses and quick thinking that carried them past suspicious officials and slaveholders, and it sets their personal daring against a clear-eyed indictment of the laws and hypocrisies that made such a scheme necessary. It remains one of the most gripping and morally forceful of the slave narratives.

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William Craft, Ellen Craft

William Craft (c.1824-1900) and Ellen Craft (c.1826-1891) were an enslaved married couple from Macon, Georgia, who escaped to the North in 1848 and became prominent abolitionist lecturers. They later settled in England before returning to found a school in Georgia after the Civil War.

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First published
1860
Reading time
About 110 minutes
Pages
66
Language
English
Genre
Memoir
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