Master slave husband wife : an epic journey from slavery to freedom
Woo, Ilyon2024
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In December 1848, a young enslaved couple named Ellen and William Craft traveled openly by rail, coach and steamship from Macon, Georgia, to Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. Ellen, who passed for white, disguised herself as a wealthy disabled man, with William as "his" slave. Woo follows their journey north, and in joining the abolitionist lecture circuit. When the new Fugitive Slave Law in 1850 put them at risk, they fled from the United States. Their very existence challenged the nation's core precepts of life, liberty, and justice for all.
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Author:
Woo, Ilyon, author
Edition:
First Simon & Schuster paperback edition.
Imprint:
New York : Simon & Schuster, 2024.©2023.
Collation:
416 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations, maps ; 24 cm.
Notes:
Originally published: 2023.Includes bibliographical references (pages 341-391) and index.
Contents:
OvertureMaconGeorgiaSavannahCharlestonOverlandPennsylvaniaNew EnglandThe United StatesCanadaOverseasCoda.
ISBN:
9781501191060 (paperback)9781501191070 (ebook)9781501191053 (hardcover)
Dewey class:
306.362092273B/CRA
Language:
English
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Subject:
Craft, WilliamCraft, EllenFugitive slaves -- United States -- BiographyFugitive slaves -- England -- BiographyEnslaved persons -- Georgia -- BiographyRacially mixed women -- United States -- BiographyAbolitionists -- United States -- BiographyAntislavery movements -- History -- 19th centuryBiographies
BRN:
1994012