Running a Thousand Miles for Freedom: the escape of William and Ellen Craft from slavery - Softcover

Schoff, S. S. Schoff

Softcover

ISBN 10: 3337382096 ISBN 13: 9783337382094

Publisher: hansebooks, 2017

Synopsis

Running a Thousand Miles for Freedom - the escape of William and Ellen Craft from slavery is an unchanged, high-quality reprint of the original edition of 1860. Hansebooks is editor of the literature on different topic areas such as research and science, travel and expeditions, cooking and nutrition, medicine, and other genres. As a publisher we focus on the preservation of historical literature. Many works of historical writers and scientists are available today as antiques only. Hansebooks newly publishes these books and contributes to the preservation of literature which has become rare and historical knowledge for the future.

About this title

Book Description:

This compelling narrative, first published in 1860, recounts how William Craft (c.1825-1900) and his wife Ellen (c.1825-1891) courageously escaped from slavery in America. The work traces their flight from Georgia to find freedom in the north and, later, in England.

About the Author:

In 1848 William and Ellen Craft made one of the most daring and remarkable escapes in the history of slavery in America. With fair-skinned Ellen in the guise of a white male planter and William posing as her servant, the Crafts traveled by rail and ship--in plain sight and relative luxury--from bondage in Macon, Georgia, to freedom first in Philadelphia, then Boston, and ultimately England. William Craft (1821-1900) and Ellen Craft (1826-1891) returned to the United States after the Civil War. For the rest of their lives, often at great personal risk, they worked to improve conditions for African Americans in the South.

About this edition

• Publisher: hansebooks
• Publication date: 2017
• ISBN 10: 3337382096
• ISBN 13: 9783337382094
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 120