Running a Thousand Miles for Freedom Author:William Craft, Ellen Craft 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 ... more »Philadelphia, then Boston, and ultimately England.
This edition of their thrilling story is newly typeset from the original 1860 text. Eleven annotated supplementary readings, drawn from a variety of contemporary sources, help to place the Crafts’ story within the complex cultural currents of transatlantic abolitionism. As well as the actual escape experience, it discusses gender and racial role-reversals, husband-wife and master-slave relations, and abolitionist activity on both sides of the Mason-Dixon line.« less