Description
Husband and wife William and Ellen Craft's break from slavery in 1848 was perhaps the most extraordinary in American history. Numerous newspaper reports in the United States and abroad told of how the two -- fair-skinned Ellen disguised as a white slave master and William posing as her servant -- negotiated heart-pounding brushes with discovery while fleeing Macon, Georgia, for Philadelphia and eventually Boston. No account, though, conveyed the ingenuity, daring, good fortune, and love that characterized their flight for freedom better than the couple's own version, published in 1860, a remarkable authorial accomplishment only twelve years beyond illiteracy. Now their stirring first-person narrative and Richard Blackett's excellent interpretive pieces are brought together in one volume to tell the complete story of the Crafts.
Author: William Craft
Publisher: LSU Press
Published: 01/01/1999
Pages: 120
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 0.38lbs
Size: 8.90h x 5.98w x 0.27d
ISBN13: 9780807123201
ISBN10: 080712320X
BISAC Categories:
- Biography & Autobiography | Cultural, Ethnic & Regional | General
- Social Science | Slavery
- Social Science | Ethnic Studies | American | African American & Black Studies
About the Author
Richard J. M. Blackett is the Andrew Jackson Professor ofHistory at Vanderbilt University and the author of several booksabout nineteenth-century history, including Divided Hearts: Britain and the American Civil War.