In December 1848, Ellen Craft, light-skinned enough to pass as white, disguised herself as an ailing young planter, with her husband William playing her slave. They travelled openly by train and steamer from Macon, Georgia, to Philadelphia, bluffing through hotels and custom houses, and later fled to England after the Fugitive Slave Act.
One of the most daring escape narratives in American history, told by the people who lived it. Download the free EPUB.