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 ...

MACON, Ga. — This report has been contributed by Tyler Jones, a student from Mercer University’s Center for Collaborative Journalism. Macon is rich with Black history, but these two figures ...

“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 ...

Slaves William and Ellen Craft’s dangerous journey to freedom ... An astonishing bit of history summed up in a quote author Woo quotes in her book. Could almost be a blurb for the back of ...

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 ...

Alloy Entertainment and Alloy Features are moving to produce Running a Thousand Miles for Freedom, a feature film based on the book by William and Ellen Craft first published in 1860 that tells ...

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 ...

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.