Free Download Barbara McCaskill, "Love, Liberation, and Escaping Slavery: William and Ellen Craft in Cultural Memory"
English | ISBN: 0820347248 | 2015 | 152 pages | EPUB | 1223 KB
The spectacular 1848 escape of William and Ellen Craft (1824-1900; 1826-1891) from slavery in Macon, Georgia, is a dramatic story in the annals of American history. Ellen, who could pass for white, disguised herself as a gentleman slaveholder; William accompanied her as his "master's" devoted slave valet; both traveled openly by train, steamship, and carriage to arrive in free Philadelphia on Christmas Day. In Love, Liberation, and Escaping Slavery