Ellen Craft (c. 1826 – c. 1897) was a slave in Macon, Georgia, in the United States. Her escape from slavery was widely publicized and used by abolitionists in their struggle to abolish the institution.
Ellen Craft was among the most famous of escaped slaves. She married William Craft in 1846. The daughter of a slave woman and her white master, she disguised herself as a white man, and her husband, William, posed as her body servant, as they made...
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Ellen Craft (c. 1826 – c. 1897) was a slave in Macon, Georgia, in the United States. Her escape from slavery was widely publicized and used by abolitionists in their struggle to abolish the institution.
Ellen Craft was among the most famous of escaped slaves. She married William Craft in 1846. The daughter of a slave woman and her white master, she disguised herself as a white man, and her husband, William, posed as her body servant, as they made a dramatic and dangerous escape from Macon to Savannah by train in 1848, and then north by steamship. The story they told was they were heading to Philadelphia to get medical attention for the infirm Ellen. The Crafts arrived in Philadelphia on December 25, 1848.
Ellen Craft was born around 1826 in Clinton, Georgia. Her mother was a slave and her father was her mother's owner. As William tells in the published account of their escape, Running a Thousand Miles for Freedom, Ellen was so light-skinned that she was often mistaken as one of her...
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