Publisher's Synopsis
""Running A Thousand Miles For Freedom"" is a memoir written by William Craft, an escaped slave from Georgia, and his wife Ellen Craft. The book chronicles their daring escape from slavery in 1848, during which Ellen disguised herself as a white male slave owner and William posed as her slave. The couple traveled over 1,000 miles to freedom in Philadelphia, using various modes of transportation and evading slave hunters along the way. The book also details their lives as free people in the North, including their work as abolitionists and their involvement in the Underground Railroad. The book provides a firsthand account of the horrors of slavery and the lengths that people were willing to go to escape it. It is a powerful and inspiring story of courage and determination in the face of adversity.This scarce antiquarian book is a facsimile reprint of the old original and may contain some imperfections such as library marks and notations. Because we believe this work is culturally important, we have made it available as part of our commitment for protecting, preserving, and promoting the world's literature in affordable, high quality, modern editions, that are true to their original work.
