People/Characters William Craft
Works (12)
- Master Slave Husband Wife: An Epic Journey from Slavery to Freedom by Ilyon Woo
- Behind the Scenes: or, Thirty Years a Slave and Four Years in the White House by Elizabeth Keckley
- Brother against Brother by William C. Davis
- two tickets to freedom: the true story of ellen and william craft, fugitive slaves by Florence B. Freedman
- Slave Narratives by William L. Andrews
- Running a Thousand Miles for Freedom by William Craft
- Forbidden Fruit: Love Stories from the Underground Railroad by Betty DeRamus
- Harriet Jacobs: A Life by Jean Fagan Yellin
- 5,000 Miles to Freedom: Ellen and William Craft's Flight from Slavery by Judith Bloom Fradin
- The Brave Escape of Ellen and William Craft (Graphic Library: Graphic History) by Donald B. Lemke
- The Civitas Anthology Of African American Slave Narratives by William L. Andrews
- Lewis Hayden and the War Against Slavery by Joel Strangis
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| Description | Wiiliam Craft, a cabinet-maker, married an enslaved lady's maid Ellen, who could pass as white. They disguised themselves as a white man and his black slave, and traveled to Philadelphia, where they gave abolitionist speeches. With the passing of the Fugitive Slave Law in 1850, it became too dangerous, and they moved to England where they also worked for abolition and racial equality. After the Civil War, they returned to the American South and worked to assist the freed slaves. Ellen & William Craft in Wikipedia |