Running a Thousand Miles for Freedom

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 edit...