The short version of the story goes… 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 disguised as 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. Their thrilling story is told in the book, "Running a Thousand Miles for Freedom," which the couple actually wrote in the 1860s, and was republished in 1999 on paperback, by the University of Georgia Press, and just last summer (2015) as a…
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