Ellen And William Craft
Ellen And William Craft. William and Ellen Craft were born into slavery. The daughter of an African American woman and her white enslaver, Ellen looked white and was able to dress as a southern slaveholder in trousers, top hat, and short hair to avoid detection by slave-catchers.
When new laws meant they could be recaptured by. William and Ellen Craft's self-liberation is one of the most remarkable escapes ever recorded in a historic slave narrative. Despite many near disasters, the Crafts arrived safely in Boston.
This thirst for change and freedom prompted two black slaves, Ellen and William Craft, to stage an audacious escape from a plantation in Macon, Georgia.
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Ellen Smith was born in Clinton, Georgia, the daughter of a mulatto slave, Maria, and her owner, Major James Smith. The elaborate performance of freedom relied on Ellen's acute. Their story begins with Ellen working and living with her half-sister, Eliza Smith.
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