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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William and Ellen Craft were two slaves who successfully escaped to the North in 1848. They were known for their creative escape plan, in which Ellen pretended to be sick and William pretended to be her white doctor. Their descendants have...
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