Running a Thousand Miles for Freedom - The Escape of William and Ellen Craft From Slavery

Informationen zum Autor WILLIAM CRAFT (1821-1900), with his spouse Ellen Craft (1826-1891), returned to the United States after the Civil War. For the rest of their lives, often at great personal risk, the Crafts worked to improve conditions for African Americans in the South. Klappentext 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.This edition of their thrilling story is newly typeset from the original 1860 text. Eleven annotated supplementary readings! drawn from a variety of contemporary sources! help to place the Crafts' story within the complex cultural currents of transatlantic abolitionism. Zusammenfassung In 1848 William and Ellen Craft made one of the most daring escapes in the history of slavery. This edition of their story includes 11 annotated supplementary readings! drawn from contemporary sources! to help place the Crafts' story within the cultural currents of transatlantic abolitionism.

Product details

• Authors: Ellen Craft, William Craft, William Craft Craft
• Assisted by: Barbara McCaskill (Editor)
• Publisher: The University of Georgia Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 30.04.1999
• EAN: 9780820321042
• ISBN: 978-0-8203-2104-2
• No. of pages: 144
• Series: Brown Thrasher Books; Brown Thrasher Books
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > History > Modern era up to 1918; Non-fiction book > History > Miscellaneous; Social sciences, law, business > Sociology > General, dictionaries; Menschenhandel, 19. Jahrhundert (1800 bis 1899 n. Chr.), Vereinigte Staaten von Amerika, USA, Amerikanische Geschichte, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Slavery, History - U.S., SOCIAL SCIENCE / Ethnic Studies / African American Studies, HISTORY / United States / 19th Century