"Yours very truly": Ellen Craft - the fugitive as text and artifact.

From: African American Review | Date: December 22, 1994| Author: | Copyright information

William and Ellen Craft recounted how they were able to free themselves from the bondage of slavery and the opportunities they had as a freed couple in their narrative and correspondence. In his narrative entitled 'Running a Thousand Miles for Freedom,' William said that he disguised himself as a female slave of Ellen, who was dressed as a rich rheumatic Southern gentleman on a trip to Philadelphia to seek treatment. In her letters to UK and US newspapers, Ellen expressed the predicament of having provisional freedom in England.

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