Running a Thousand Miles for Freedom: Or, the Escape of William and Ellen Craft from Slavery (Thrift Editions) - Softcover

Ellen Craft, William And

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0486793486 ISBN 13: 9780486793481

Verlag: Dover Publications Inc., 2014

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An important work of African American history in the style of Twelve Years a Slave, this compelling 1860 narrative recounts a remarkable escape from the shackles of slavery. Light-skinned Ellen Craft disguised herself as a man; her husband, William, posed as her servant; and the pair successfully traveled from Georgia to Boston. Their story offers fascinating insights into issues of race, gender, and class in 19th-century America.

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This compelling narrative offers a firsthand account of a couple's remarkable flight from slavery in the antebellum South. William and Ellen Craft devised a daring plan in which the light-skinned wife disguised herself as a man and the husband posed as her servant. This brief memoir recounts their journey northward in 1848, when they made their way to Philadelphia and later settled in Boston, where they were active in abolitionist circles.
Originally published in 1860, the Crafts' account of their escape was an immediate success. Their story offers fascinating insights into issues of race, gender, and class in nineteenth-century America.

Details zur Ausgabe

• Verlag: Dover Publications Inc.
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2014
• ISBN 10: 0486793486
• ISBN 13: 9780486793481
• Einband: Tapa blanda
• Sprache: Englisch
• Anzahl der Seiten: 64