Running a Thousand Miles for Freedom : The Escape of William and Ellen Craft from Slavery
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Format
Paperback / Softback
ISBN-10
080712320X
ISBN-13
9780807123201
Publisher
Louisiana State University Press
Imprint
Louisiana State University Press
Country of Manufacture
US
Country of Publication
GB
Publication Date
Jan 1st, 1999
Print length
120 Pages
Weight
172 grams
Dimensions
22.60 x 15.10 x 0.60 cms
Ksh 3,600.00
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Husband and wife William and Ellen Craft's break from slavery in 1848 was perhaps the most extraordinary in American history. No account conveyed the ingenuity, daring, good fortune, and love that characterized their flight for freedom better than the couple's own version, published in 1860.
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.
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