[PDF] Running A Thousand Miles For Freedom Or The Escape Of William And Ellen Craft From Slavery With A Portrait Of Ellen Craft eBook

Author : William Craft
Publisher : University of Georgia Press
Page : 151 pages
File Size : 16,93 MB
Release : 2011-03-15
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 0820340804

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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.

Author : William Craft
Publisher : Lulu.com
Page : 60 pages
File Size : 47,70 MB
Release : 2017-02-18
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 1365768198

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William and Ellen Craft were slaves from Macon who gained celebrity after a daring public escape in December 1848. The light-skinned Ellen Craft posed as a white woman traveling with her valet. The bold ruse worked and the couple were able to elude slave hunters and eventually cross the Mason-Dixon line. After many trials and tribulations, including pretending to be a married interracial couple, they eventually settled outside Savannah, Georgia where they were able to purchase land. Running a Thousand Miles for Freedom is a fast-paced, suspenseful account of their incredible journey.

Author : William and Ellen Craft
Publisher : BoD – Books on Demand
Page : 114 pages
File Size : 20,18 MB
Release : 2023-08-25
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 3387000642

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Reproduction of the original. The publishing house Megali specialises in reproducing historical works in large print to make reading easier for people with impaired vision.

Author : William Craft
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 123 pages
File Size : 48,12 MB
Release : 2013-09-26
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 1108065465

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This compelling narrative, first published in 1860, recounts how spouses William and Ellen Craft courageously escaped from slavery in America.

Author : Ellen Craft
Publisher : Good Press
Page : 104 pages
File Size : 45,62 MB
Release : 2024-01-15
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN :

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This carefully crafted ebook: "Running A Thousand Miles For Freedom – Incredible Escape of William & Ellen Craft from Slavery" is formatted for your eReader with a functional and detailed table of contents. "Running a Thousand Miles for Freedom" chronicles the daring escape of William and Ellen Craft which is often known as the most ingenious plot in fugitive slave history. While Ellen posed as a white male planter William, her husband, posed as her personal servant. The couple cleverly travelled by train and steamboat, escaped nail-biting detection and arrived in Philadelphia on Christmas Day. Excerpt: "It is a common practice in the slave States for ladies, when angry with their maids, to send them to the calybuce sugar-house, or to some other place established for the purpose of punishing slaves, and have them severely flogged; and I am sorry it is a fact, that the villains to whom those defenceless creatures are sent, not only flog them as they are ordered, but frequently compel them to submit to the greatest indignity." William Craft (1824–1900) and Ellen Craft (1826–1891) were slaves from Macon, Georgia in the United States who escaped to the North in December 1848. Their daring escape was widely publicized, making them among the most famous of fugitive slaves in America. But due to the controversial Fugitive Slave Act of 1850 they had to immigrate to Britain for safety where they continued to garner support for the abolishment of slavery.

Author : William Craft
Publisher : e-artnow
Page : 96 pages
File Size : 45,3 MB
Release : 2017-10-16
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 8027225558

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"Running a Thousand Miles for Freedom" chronicles the daring escape of William and Ellen Craft which is often known as the most ingenious plot in fugitive slave history. While Ellen posed as a white male planter William, her husband, posed as her personal servant. The couple cleverly travelled by train and steamboat, escaped nail-biting detection and arrived in Philadelphia on Christmas Day. Excerpt: "It is a common practice in the slave States for ladies, when angry with their maids, to send them to the calybuce sugar-house, or to some other place established for the purpose of punishing slaves, and have them severely flogged; and I am sorry it is a fact, that the villains to whom those defenceless creatures are sent, not only flog them as they are ordered, but frequently compel them to submit to the greatest indignity." William Craft (1824–1900) and Ellen Craft (1826–1891) were slaves from Macon, Georgia in the United States who escaped to the North in December 1848. Their daring escape was widely publicized, making them among the most famous of fugitive slaves in America. But due to the controversial Fugitive Slave Act of 1850 they had to immigrate to Britain for safety where they continued to garner support for the abolishment of slavery.

Author : William Fl 1860 Craft
Publisher : Legare Street Press
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 22,21 MB
Release : 2021-09-09
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ISBN : 9781013803246

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