Ellen Craft and her husband William made a daring escape—in broad daylight—from Georgia to freedom in 1848
In the 1800s many enslaved people in the United States, especially those who lived in the Deep South, made valiant efforts to escape to freedom in the north. Many of the most well-known stories, like that of Harriet Tub- man and the people she helped ferry along
"[A]s my wife was nearly white, I might get her to disguise herself as an invalid gentleman, and assume to be my master,” William Craft, shown in an 1840s portrait here, said.History did not record when and how Ellen met the man who became her husband, William Craft. He was born in rural Georgia in 1824. The same person enslaved his entire family, but cruelly separated them through the course of William’s childhood.
[S]laveholders have the privilege of taking their slaves to any part of the country they think proper, it occurred to me that, as my wife was nearly white, I might get her to disguise herself as an invalid gentleman, and assume to be my master . . . in this manner we might effect our escape . . . with little difficulty I went to different parts of the town, at odd times, and purchased things piece by piece, . . . So when we fancied we had everything ready the time was fixed for the flight.
In the 18th and 19th centuries, Black authors published personal accounts of their lives as enslaved people and their escapes. Known popularly as slave narratives, these important works—penned by esteemed authors like the Crafts, Olaudah Equiano, Frederick Douglass, Sojourner Truth, and Harriet Jacobs—were an important part in exposing the horrors of slavery and ending the practice in the United States.
African Meeting House in the Beacon Hill neighborhood of Boston, Massachusetts, where the Crafts spoke of their escape, is pictured.In Boston tales of their daring escape from Georgia earned them great respect. They quickly became loud voices in the abolitionist movement and traveled around New England to speak out about the horrors of slavery down south.
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