William And Ellen Craft
William And Ellen Craft. William struggled to maintain the farm in the face of increased debt, plummeting cotton prices, and increasing anti-Black violence and legal oppression. Growing up enslaved in Macon, Georgia, William and Ellen Craft hoped to one day escape.
John Inscoe of the New Georgia Encyclopedia and Dr. When new laws meant they could be recaptured by. Barbara McCaskill, William and Ellen Craft's daring escape from slavery involved Ellen Craft posing as a white slaveholder with her light skin and William posing as her body servant.
From Macon to Savannah, Charleston to Boston, they faced many dangers and the never-ending fear of discovery.
Ellen was born in Clinton, Georgia and was the daughter of an African American slave and her white owner.
William and Ellen Craft, Running a Thousand Miles to Freedom. William struggled to maintain the farm in the face of increased debt, plummeting cotton prices, and increasing anti-Black violence and legal oppression. Growing up enslaved in Macon, Georgia, William and Ellen Craft hoped to one day escape.
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