Nonfiction · 1860
Running a Thousand Miles for Freedom
Or, The Escape of William and Ellen Craft from Slavery
Ellen Craft, light-skinned enough to pass as a young white gentleman, and her husband William, posing as her enslaved servant, travel openly by train and steamship from Macon, Georgia to Philadelphia in 1848, a four-day journey made under constant risk of exposure since Ellen could neither read nor write to sign a hotel register.
William Craft published their account in London in 1860, after the couple had fled a second time, across the Atlantic to England, following the Fugitive Slave Act of 1850, which had made them targets for recapture even in the free North.
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