“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 ...

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.

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 ...

and assume to be my master,” William Craft, shown in an 1840s portrait here, said. Fotosearch/Getty Images History did not record when and how Ellen met the man who became her husband ...

The story of William and Ellen Craft plays more ... of Black History Month. Davis said she and other members of the family learned the story of the Crafts from her grandmother, having it passed ...

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 ...

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 ...