"There's just something magical when you hold this paper in your hands," she said. Ellen Craft was an enslaved woman and seamstress living in Macon, Georgia, in the 1840s. She was the daughter of ...

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 ...

It was a remarkable story: Ellen and William Craft, both enslaved in Macon, Ga., in the 1830s and 1840s, took on a dangerous disguise in order to escape bondage. Throughout their treacherous ...

On the morning of Dec. 20, 1848, William and Ellen Craft began ... of American freedom," Woo said. "Yet it wasn't considered safe for liberty seekers like the Crafts." Philadelphia had the largest ...

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 ...

The story of Ellen and William Craft’s ingenious escape from bondage, and the rest of their eventful lives, forms the basis of a new short film from the Savannah College of Art and Design (SCAD ...

Jeanette Waddell tells the story of William and Ellen Craft in front of an audience on July 12, 2023 at Athens-Clarke County Library in Athens, Georgia. (Photo/Justin Brosemer) Facebook ...

A black married couple who escaped slavery in the US and fled to England to campaign for abolition have been honoured with a blue plaque. Ellen and William Craft travelled 1,000 miles from Georgia ...