Running a thousand miles for freedom
the escape of William and Ellen Craft from slavery
by William Craft
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Running a Thousand Miles for Freedom details the escape of Ellen and William Craft from slavery in Georgia in the United States. Well publicized at the time, the married couple became celebrities in the abolitionist struggle. Their daring and risky plan meant passing the light-skinned Ellen off as a white male traveling with 'his' slave, William, as no woman would have traveled alone with a slave at the time. Running a Thousand Miles for Freedom gives a unique historical opportunity to witness a first hand account of notions of race, gender and class as they stood in a nineteenth century society which treated them as fixed and defining.
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Fugitive slaves, Nonfiction, Slaves, Biography & Autobiography, Slaves' writings, American, Biography, Esclaves fugitifs, Fugitive slaves, united states, Escapes, Georgia, biography, Slaves' writings, African americans, biography, Slavery, Esclavage, Biographies, Enslaved persons' writingsPeople
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Running a Thousand Miles for Freedom: Or, the Escape of William and Ellen Craft from Slavery
2013, Cambridge University Press
in English
1108065465 9781108065467
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Running a thousand miles for freedom: the escape of William and Ellen Craft from slavery
1999, University of Georgia Press
in English
0820321044 9780820321042
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Running a thousand miles for freedom: the escape of William and Ellen Craft from slavery
1999, Louisiana State University Press
in English
- Louisiana pbk. ed.
080712320X 9780807123201
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Running a thousand miles for freedom: or, The escape of William and Ellen Craft from slavery.
1969, Mnemosyne Pub. Co.
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