1. Ellen And William Craft Ellen and William Craft Ellen and William Craft were slaves, and although they were husband and wife, they lived over a hundred miles apart. Ellen was light skinned enough to be able to pass for white. for a few weeks before moving on to Boston. Ellen Craft found employment as a seamstress and William as a cabinetmaker. http://www.nps.gov/boaf/craft~1.htm

2. Georgia Women Of Achievement: 1996 Inductee ELLEN SMITH CRAFT Ellen Smith Craft 1826 1891 I had much rather starve in England, a free woman, than be a slave for the best man that ever breathed upon the American continent. http://www.gawomen.org/honorees/crafte.htm

Ellen Smith Craft “I had much rather starve in England, a free woman, than be a slave for the best man that ever breathed upon the American continent.” Ellen Smith Craft, the child of an African American woman and her white owner, was born into slavery in Clinton, Georgia. Sold, she was taken by a new owner to Macon where she met and married another slave, William Craft. Together, they devised a plan to escape. With Ellen posing as William’s master, they traveled by train to Philadelphia. They moved on to Boston, which was considered safer, but under the Fugitive Slave Act, their Georgia owners pursued them until they fled to England. In 1869, they returned to the South. Despite many hardships, they established a cooperative farm for former slaves and a school in Bryan County for their children. Although the projects failed and the Crafts died in poverty, Ellen is remembered for her belief in the dignity and worth of all human beings and her determination to shape a better future for succeeding generations. Year inducted: 1996 Learn more about Ellen Smith Craft Where to go for more information: Tubman African American Museum Macon Kenneth Coleman and Charles Stephen Gurr, editors

3. Ellen And William Craft Ellen and William Craft. Craft, Ellen and William, name of two African Americanabolitionists who were husband and wife. HENRY BROWN. ELLEN CRAFT. SUPPORTER. http://www.africanaonline.com/slavery_ellen_william_craft.htm

Ellen and William Craft Craft, Ellen and William, name of two African American abolitionists who were husband and wife. Ellen Craft (1826-1891) was a light-skinned black who helped her and her husband escape from slavery by passing as white; William Craft (1824-1900) is known for the autobiographical slave narrative that described the couple's dramatic escape. Ellen was born in Clinton, Georgia, to a biracial slave woman and her master and was so light-skinned that she was often mistaken for a member of her father's white family. This infuriated her mistress and, as a result, at age 11 Ellen was given as a wedding gift to a daughter who lived in Macon. There Ellen met William, whom she married in 1846. Two years later, the Crafts began to devise their escape plan, which involved Ellen posing as a white slaveholder traveling with "his" slave William. This plan required several levels of deception. Because a white woman would not travel alone with a male slave, Ellen had to pretend to be not only white but a white man. She cut her hair, changed her walk, and wrapped her jaw in bandages to disguise her lack of a beard. To hide her illiteracy, she wrapped her right arm in a sling to have a ready excuse for being unable to sign papers; and she explained all of the bandages by claiming to be an invalid traveling north to receive medical care. In this manner, the Crafts traveled from Georgia to Pennsylvania by train, steamer, and ferry without being discovered. They arrived in Philadelphia on Christmas Day in 1848.

4. Georgia Women Of Achievement: 1996 Inductee ELLEN SMITH CRAFT Ellen Smith Craft 1826 1891 Ellen Smith Craft is a Georgia woman whose life story reads like a Hollywood script of adventure and courage an http://www.gawomen.org/honorees/long/crafte_long.htm

Ellen Smith Craft Ellen Smith Craft is a Georgia woman whose life story reads like a Hollywood script of adventure and courage: an unlikely escape from the shackles of slavery followed by the selfless pursuit of justice despite continuing threats to her own safety and well-being. Ellen and William were allowed to marry in 1846, but they could not live together since they belonged to different owners. They endured this separation for a while but soon began to save money and plan an escape. While their plan seems incredible, it worked. Ellen disguised herself as a white gentleman, placing her arm in a sling to cover her inability to write, and wrapping her head in a bandage to hide her lack of beard. She pretended to be traveling, first-class, to Philadelphia for medical treatment. William went as her slave. After several harrowing encounters, they got to Savannah by train, took a boat to Charleston and then the train again, to Maryland. Once in free territory, they made contact with an Abolitionist group. Ellen stayed with a Quaker family in Philadelphia who nursed her through a serious illness. But for safety they moved on to Boston, the main center of the Abolitionist movement, where they supported themselves through their trades, cabinet-making for William and sewing for Ellen. Both became active in the abolitionist movement and gained fame on the lecture circuit; stories about them were published in The New York Herald, The Boston Globe, and the Georgia Journal and The Macon Telegraph.

5. Voices From The Gaps: Ellen Craft ELLEN CRAFT (CIRCA 1826 CIRCA 1897). PROJECT INFO. Overview and purpose ofthe program. Awards. Ellen Craft was born around 1826 in Clinton, Georgia. http://voices.cla.umn.edu/authors/CRAFTellen.html

PROJECT WRITERS CLASSROOM SUBMIT ... By significant dates ELLEN CRAFT (CIRCA 1826 - CIRCA 1897) PROJECT INFO Overview and purpose of the program Awards List of contributors Permissions list ... Contact us (please note that we have no contact with the writers and cannot provide contact information) "So I write these few lines merely to say that the statement is entirely unfounded, for I have never had the slightest inclination whatever of returning to bondage; and God forbid that I should ever be so false to liberty as to prefer slavery in its stead. In fact, since my escape from slavery, I have gotten much better in every respect than I could have possibly anticipated. Though, had it been to the contrary, my feelings in regard to this would have been just the same, for I had much rather starve in England, a free woman, than be a slave for the best man that ever breathed upon the American continent." Anti-Slavery Advocate , December 1852 Click to go to: Biography - Criticism Selected Bibliography Related Links BIOGRAPHY - CRITICISM Many an audience became fascinated with the remarkable story of Ellen Craft as she and her husband William toured the abolitionist lecture circuit in the mid-nineteenth century. Though stories of escape told by former slaves were not uncommon to abolitionist audiences, Ellen's story proved especially intriguing since she courageously passed as both white and male in order to get herself and William to freedom in the North.

6. William Craft. Running A Thousand Miles Fo Freedom; Or, The Escape Of William An or, the Escape of William and Ellen Craft from Slavery. London William Tweedie, 1860. http://docsouth.unc.edu/neh/craft/menu.html

William Craft Running a Thousand Miles fo Freedom; or, the Escape of William and Ellen Craft from Slavery. London: William Tweedie, 1860. Full Text (iv, 111 p., ca. 170K) HTML file SGML/TEI file for use with an SGML Viewer Illustrations Frontispiece Title Page Title Page Verso Subjects African Americans Biography. Craft, Ellen. Craft, William. Fugitive slaves United States Biography. ... Slaves' writings, American. Funding from the National Endowment for the Humanities supported the electronic publication of this title. James E. Shepard Memorial Library, North Carolina Central University, provided the text for the electronic publication of this title. Return to "North American Slave Narratives" Home Page Return to Documenting the American South Home Page Feedback URL: http://docsouth.unc.edu/neh/craft/menu.html Last update June 06, 2001

7. Ellen's North Carolina Craft Show - Pictures and details from Ellen's Craft Show Those of you who join us in chat know of Ellen's Craft show. Ellen is in North Carolina, USA. http://sewing.about.com/library/blellen.htm

zfp=-1 About Sewing Search in this topic on About on the Web in Products Web Hosting From the editors of Sewing with Debbie Colgrove Your Guide to one of hundreds of sites Home Articles Forums ... Help zmhp('style="color:#fff"') Subscribe Now Choose One: Subscribe Customer Service Subjects About Sew News Subscription Help Sew News Resources Special Offers ... All articles on this topic Stay up-to-date! Subscribe to our newsletter. Advertising Free Credit Report Free Psychics Advertisement Ellen's Vests and Craft Show Those of you who join us in chat know of Ellen's Craft show. Ellen is in North Carolina, USA. Here are some photos of Ellen's sewing and crafts. As you approach the front of Ellen's stall, you'll see all her wares. Basket garters, fabric books, tiles and scrunchies. As you round the corner to exit or as you come in, you can't miss Ellen's vest Right near the door to catch people as they enter or leave are Ellen's vests and aprons. Vests are the backdrop and a great focal point for Ellen's shoppers. Ellen and Nancy like to share the work load while the sell their wares. Here you see Nancy with her Angels. Nice work Ellen and Nancy!!! Thank You For Sharing!

8. Documenting The American South Search Results. 1 title with subject Craft, Ellen. Running a Thousand Miles forFreedom; or, the Escape of William and Ellen Craft from Slavery. William Craft http://docsouth.unc.edu/result.phtml?lcsh=Craft, Ellen.

9. PROJECT GUTENBERG OFFICIAL HOME SITE -- Listing By AUTHOR William and Ellen Craft. http://promo.net/cgi-promo/pg/cat.cgi?&label=ID&ftpsite=ftp://ibiblio.or

10. Project Gutenberg Titles By Craft, Ellen Project Gutenberg Titles by. Ellen Craft. Running a Thousand Miles forFreedom or, The Escape of William and Ellen Craft from Slavery. http://digital.library.upenn.edu/webbin/gutbook/author?name=Craft, Ellen

11. Craft, Ellen Craft, Ellen. Craft (18261897), along with her husband, escaped fromslavery to freedom. She disguised herself as her husband's master. http://www.ddc2000.com/products/samples/ss2kwebdemo/grade5/support/data/unit53/0

CRAFT, ELLEN Craft (1826-1897), along with her husband, escaped from slavery to freedom. She disguised herself as her husband's master. The two successfully traveled four days from Georgia to Philadelphia where abolitionists gave them shelter and protection from slave hunters until they could leave for England to escape runaway slave laws . In 1868, the Crafts and their five children returned to the United States, bought a plantation, and opened a trade school for African Americans.

12. William Craft. Running A Thousand Miles For Freedom; Or, The Escape Of William A Running a Thousand Miles for Freedom; or, the Escape of William and Ellen Craft from Slavery By William Craft http://docsouth.unc.edu/neh/craft/frontis.html

William Craft Running a Thousand Miles for Freedom; or, the Escape of William and Ellen Craft from Slavery. London: William Tweedie, 1860. ELLEN CRAFT. The fugitive slave. (Frontispiece) Return to Menu Page for Running a Thousand Miles for Freedom... by William Craft Return to "North American Slave Narratives, Beginnings to 1920" Home Page Return to Documenting the American South Home Page Feedback URL: http://docsouth.unc.edu/neh/craft/frontis.html Last update June 06, 2001

13. African Slavery Images Craft, Ellen and William name of two African American abolitionistswho were husband and wife. Ellen Craft (18261891) was a light http://www.africanaonline.com/slavery.htm

Underground Railroad You are a slave. Your body, your time, your very breath belong to a farmer in 1850s Maryland. Six long days a week you tend his fields and make him rich. You have never tasted freedom. You never expect to. And yet . . . your soul lights up when you hear whispers of attempted escape. Freedom means a hard, dangerous trek. Do you try it? Rosewood Rosewood Case, one of the worst race riots in American history, in which hundreds of angry whites killed an undetermined number of blacks and burnt down their Florida community. Slavery in the United States Slavery has appeared in many forms throughout its long history. Slaves have served in capacities as diverse as concubines, warriors, servants, craftsmen, tutors, and victims of ritual sacrifice. In the New World (the Americas), however, slavery emerged as a system of forced labor designed to facilitate the production of staple crops Black Cowboys Black Cowboys, legendary African American figures who drove great cattle herds across the early West.

14. African American Registry: Ellen & William Craft Escape To Freedom slavery. William and Ellen Craft's selfliberation is one of the mostremarkable escapes ever recorded in a historic slave narrative. http://www.aaregistry.com/african_american_history/286/Ellen__William_Craft_esca

Home What Happened on Your Birthday? Search the Registry by Category ... Contact July 26 The Crafts (in character) This date recalls the lives of Ellen and William Craft. Ellen and William Craft were two African-American abolitionists known for William's autobiographical slave narrative that described the couple's dramatic escape from slavery. William and Ellen Craft's self-liberation is one of the most remarkable escapes ever recorded in a historic slave narrative. Ellen was born in 1826 in Clinton, Georgia, to a biracial slave woman and her white master, and was so light-skinned that she was often mistaken for a member of her father's family. This infuriated her mistress and, as a result, at age 11 Ellen was given as a wedding gift to a daughter who lived in Macon. There she met William, whom she married in 1846. Two years later, the Crafts began to devise their escape plan, which involved Ellen posing as a white slaveholder traveling with "his" slave, William. This required several levels of deception. She cut her hair, changed her walk, and wrapped her jaw in bandages to disguise her lack of a beard. To hide her illiteracy, she wrapped her right arm in a sling to have a ready excuse for being unable to sign papers; and Craft explained all of the bandages by claiming to be an invalid traveling north to receive medical care. In this manner, the Crafts traveled from Georgia to Pennsylvania by train, steamer, and ferry without being discovered.

15. Voices From The Gaps: Ellen Craft Women Writers of Color. Ellen Craft. (circa 1826 circa 1897). So Iwrite these Biography - Criticism. Ellen Craft. Many an audience became http://voices.cla.umn.edu/authors/ellencraft.html

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16. Books By William And Ellen Craft Author William and Ellen Craft Entry 585 Running a Thousand Miles for Freedom http://www.gutenberg.org/index/by-author/cr0.html

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17. Lecture On Escaped Slave Ellen Craft 426 0406-00 PUBLIC INQUIRIES Joanne Goodwin - 895-1026 MEDIA INQUIRIESDiane Russell - (702) 895-0894. LECTURE ON ESCAPED SLAVE Ellen Craft. http://www.unlv.edu/News_Bureau/News_Releases/2000/Apr00/426.html

PUBLIC INQUIRIES: Joanne Goodwin - 895-1026 MEDIA INQUIRIES: Diane Russell - (702) 895-0894 LECTURE ON ESCAPED SLAVE ELLEN CRAFT "Silence, Restraint, and a New Black Woman in the Narratives of Ellen Craft" will be the subject of an April 18 lecture at UNLV by University of Georgia professor Barbara McCaskill. The lecture, which is free and open to the public, is scheduled for 7 p.m. in Frank and Estella Beam Hall, Room 104. McCaskill is an associate professor of English and the co-founder and editor of the journal, Womanist Theory and Research. She is the author of Running 1,000 Miles for Freedom: The Narrative of William and Ellen Craft, which was published last year. McCaskill's lecture will focus on Craft, who achieved notoriety after she and her husband, William, escaped from slavery in Georgia in 1848. As part of their escape plan, Ellen had successfully posed as a white male Southern planter. The Crafts subsequently published a book about their lives. McCaskill's talk is sponsored by UNLV's Women's Research Institute of Nevada, the women's studies program, the office of diversity initiatives, and the office of multicultural student affairs. For additional information, call Joanne Goodwin, director of the institute and associate professor of history, at 895-1026.

18. 19CWWW Etext Library: Ellen And William Craft 19CWWW Etext Library Ellen and William Craft. Ellen and William Craft.Running a Thousand Miles to Freedom. Changes made while digitizing http://www.unl.edu/legacy/19cwww/books/elibe/craft/home.htm

19CWWW Etext Library: Ellen and William Craft 19CWWW Home 19CWWW How-to-Use-the-Web Tutorial Books Info/Links Journals Info/Links ... 19CWWW Volunteer Info Ellen and William Craft Running a Thousand Miles to Freedom Changes made while digitizing this edition of the text Preface Part I Part II To Return to Legacy Main Menu

19. 19CWWW Etext Library: Ellen And William Craft My dear Mr Estlin, I trust that in God's good providence this letter willbe handed to you in safety by our good friends, William and Ellen Craft. http://www.unl.edu/legacy/19cwww/books/elibe/craft/craftb.htm

19CWWW Etext Library: Ellen and William Craft 19CWWW Home 19CWWW How-to-Use-the-Web Tutorial Books Info/Links Journals Info/Links ... 19CWWW Volunteer Info Ellen and William Craft Running a Thousand Miles to Freedom Part II Special Thanks to Judy Boss for digitizing this material PART II AFTER my wife had a little recovered herself, she threw off the disguise and assumed her own apparel. We then stepped into the sitting room, and asked to see the landlord. The man came in, but he seemed thunderstruck on finding a fugitive slave and his wife, instead of a "young cotton planter and his nigger." As his eyes travelled round the room, he said to me, "Where is your master?" I pointed him out. The man gravely replied, "I am not joking, I really wish to see your master." I pointed him out again, but at first he could not believe his eyes; he said "he knew that was not the gentleman that came with me." But, after some conversation, we satisfied him that we were fugitive slaves, and had just escaped in the manner I have described. We asked him if

20. JMISC #57: Wm. & Ellen Craft's Stories Of Slavery Wm. Ellen Craft's Stories of Slavery. William and Ellen Craft. RUNNING A THOUSANDMILES FOR FREEDOM OR, THE ESCAPE OF WILLIAM AND Ellen Craft FROM SLAVERY. http://www.earlyrepublic.net/jm980414.htm

Jacksonian Miscellanies, #57 April 14, 1998 Jacksonian Miscellanies is a weekly* email newsletter presenting short** documents from the United States' Jacksonian Era, which you can receive it for free by sending to hal@panix.com a message with subscribe jmisc as either the subject line, or as the *only* line in the message body. If you want to make a comment or query, please send a separate message to hal@panix.com ((* Biweekly in the summer ** Typically 10-20 pages of printed text)) Jacksonian Miscellanies can also be read at http:// www.panix.com/~hal/jmisc . The WWW version is augmented with much biographical, bibliographical, and other information. Please direct responses and comments to hal@panix.com The following is from Project Gutenburg's ( http://www.promo.net/pg/ ) copy of Running A Thousand Miles For Freedom by the escaped slaves William and Ellen Craft (London, W. Tweedie, 1860) (there is an Arno Reprint in 1969 - if it exists in any other form, such as an anthology, I would like to know). The authors had escaped their slavery in Georgia in 1848, become a cause celebre in Boston in 1850 when Bostonians led by Thodore Parker repulsed kidnappers out to take them back. By 1860, they were living in England.

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