In 1848, William and Ellen Craft, an enslaved couple, made a daring escape from slavery in the south by disguising themselves as white. This is their story, as told in the new movie, “William and Ellen Craft: Running a Thousand Miles...
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William And Ellen Craft
William and Ellen Craft were slaves in the United States during the 1800s. In 1848, they escaped to the North by posing as a white man and woman. William was very light-skinned, and Ellen was very dark-skinned. They knew that if...
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