Running a thousand miles for freedom
the escape of William and Ellen Craft from slavery
Louisiana pbk. ed.
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Author
Contributions
- Craft, Ellen. - Contributor
- Blackett, R. J. M., 1943- - Contributor
Publication
1999 - Louisiana State University Press, Baton Rouge, Louisiana
Language
English
Word Count
25,500 words, Guess
Page Count
102 pages
Identifiers
- Open LibraryOL373575M
- ISBN-10080712320X
- OCLC Control Number98035264
- OCLC Control Number39605822
- Internet Archiverunningthousandm0000craf_y1a5
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- Library of Congress Control Number98035264
- Goodreads1104192
- LibraryThing1314688
Classifications
- DDC306.3/62/092273
- DDCB
- LCCE450 .C8 1999
and 1 more
- LCCE450.C8 1999
Description
Running a Thousand Miles for Freedom details the escape of Ellen and William Craft from slavery in Georgia in the United States. Well publicized at the time, the married couple became celebrities in the abolitionist struggle. Their daring and risky plan meant passing the light-skinned Ellen off as a white male traveling with 'his' slave, William, as no woman would have traveled alone with a slave at the time. Running a Thousand Miles for Freedom gives a unique historical opportunity to witness a first hand account of notions of race, gender and class as they stood in a nineteenth century society which treated them as fixed and defining.
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