Or, the Escape of William and Ellen Craft from Slavery (Dover Thrift Editions)
by William and Ellen Craft
appears in Civil War, Historical Fiction, and History.
This compelling narrative offers a firsthand account of a couple's remarkable flight from slavery in the antebellum South. William and Ellen Craft devised a daring plan in which the lightskinned wife disguised herself as a man and the husband posed as her servant. This brief memoir recounts their journey northward in 1848, when they made their way...
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