Running a Thousand Miles for Freedom - Softcover

Craft, William; Craft, Ellen

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1617206717 ISBN 13: 9781617206719

Publisher: SMK Books, 2012

Synopsis

Ellen Craft and William Craft were slaves from Macon, Georgia who escaped to the North in December 1848 by traveling openly by train and steamboat, arriving in Philadelphia on Christmas Day. She posed as a white male planter and he as her personal servant. Their daring escape was widely publicized, making them among the most famous of fugitive slaves.

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Review

""Running a Thousand Miles for Freedom" is the most significant fugitive slave narrative to come out of Georgia. I know of no other account that provides as riveting an account of an actual escape experience. It offers so much more in its treatment of gender and racial role-reversals, of husband-wife and master-slave relations, and of abolitionist activity on both sides of the Mason-Dixon line. --"Georgia Historical Quarterly""

"Running a Thousand Miles for Freedom" is the most significant fugitive slave narrative to come out of Georgia. I know of no other account that provides as riveting an account of an actual escape experience. It offers so much more in its treatment of gender and racial role-reversals, of husband-wife and master-slave relations, and of abolitionist activity on both sides of the Mason-Dixon line.--"Georgia Historical Quarterly"

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.

Edition details

• Publisher: SMK Books
• Publication date: 2012
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1617206717
• ISBN 13: 9781617206719
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 62