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In 1848 William and Ellen Craft made one of the most daring and remarkable escapes in the history of slavery in America. With fair-skinned Ellen in the guise of a white male planter and William posing as her servant, the Crafts traveled by rail and ship—in plain sight and relative luxury—from bondage in Macon, Georgia, to freedom first in Philadelphia, then Boston, and ultimately England.
This edition of their thrilling story is newly typeset from the original 1860 text. Eleven annotated supplementary readings, drawn from a variety of contemporary sources, help to place the Crafts' story within the complex cultural currents of transatlantic abolitionism.
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Jim Bruyere
reviewed Running a Thousand Miles for Freedom: The Escape of William and Ellen Craft from Slavery on October 07, 2015
Running a Thousand Miles for Freedom: The Escape of William and Ellen Craft from Slavery
This book published in 1860 is a first-person telling by a married couple of their harrowing escape from slavery. In 1848 they were able to travel openly by train and steamboat from Macon, Ga to Philadelphia, PA with Ellen dressed in disguise as a white male planter and William as his (i.e. her) personal servant. They were able to get away with it because Ellen was light-skinned and able to pass as a white person.
They lived for a while in Boston, but after passage of the Fugitive Slave Act of 1850 they no longer felt safe in the United States so they moved to England. This book was written while they were living in England. After the Civil War they moved back to Georgia.
The narrative includes a lot of diversions to tell about related stories of slavery, the way slaves were treated, and the attitudes of proslavery southerners.
The first-person writing is in the voice of William Craft. However, when the account was republished in 1890 both of the Crafts were credited as authors. It is a very sort book and available free on-line. The edition I've attached this review to is not free, however.
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