Running a thousand miles for freedom
the escape of William and Ellen Craft from slavery
by William Craft
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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."--BOOK JACKET.
"This edition of their thrilling story faithfully follows the original 1860 text. The new introduction and annotated supplementary readings, drawn from a variety of contemporary sources, help to place the Crafts' story within the complex cultural currents of transatlantic abolitionism."--BOOK JACKET.
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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
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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
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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.
in English
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Includes bibliographical references (p. [109]-112).
Originally published: London : William Tweedie, 1860. With supplemental materials.
"Brown Thrasher books."
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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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