Courage, quick thinking, luck and “our Heavenly Father,” sustained them, the Crafts said in Running a Thousand Miles for Freedom, the book they wrote in 1860 chronicling the escape.

“It just comes up again and again,” she said. In 2011, Davis and Williams donated to Avery a photo album that Ellen Craft started in England. Captions reading “Bishop James A. Healy” and ...

Ellen and William Craft ... who proposed the plaque, said last week: “Their story inspired audiences on both sides of the Atlantic and when the Crafts reached Britain, they were relentless ...

Dr Hannah-Rose Murray, the historian who proposed the plaque, said: "Ellen and William Craft were courageous and heroic freedom fighters whose daring escape from U.S. chattel slavery involved ...

Anna Eavis, curatorial director at English Heritage said: “Ellen and William Craft’s story is incredibly powerful. Their determination to escape from enslavement in the most perilous ...