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Love, Liberation, And Escaping Slavery - William and Ellen Craft in Cultural Memory (Hardcover)
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Love, Liberation, And Escaping Slavery - William and Ellen Craft in Cultural Memory (Hardcover)
Series: A Sarah Mills Hodge Fund Publication
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The spectacular 1848 escape of William and Ellen Craft (1824-1900;
1826-1891) from slavery in Macon, Georgia, is a dramatic story in
the annals of American history. Ellen, who could pass for white,
disguised herself as a gentleman slaveholder; William accompanied
her as his "master's" devoted slave valet; both travelled openly by
train, steamship, and carriage to arrive in free Philadelphia on
Christmas Day. In Love, Liberation, and Escaping Slavery, Barbara
McCaskill revisits this dual escape and examines the collaborations
and partnerships that characterized the Crafts' activism for the
next thirty years: in Boston, where they were on the run again
after the passage of the 1850 Fugitive Slave Law; in England; and
in Reconstruction-era Georgia. McCaskill also provides a close
reading of the Crafts' only book, their memoir, Running a Thousand
Miles for Freedom, published in 1860. Yet as this study of key
moments in the Crafts' public lives argues, the early print
archive-newspapers, periodicals, pamphlets, legal documents-fills
gaps in their story by providing insight into how they navigated
the challenges of freedom as reformers and educators, and it
discloses the transatlantic British and American audiences'
changing reactions to them. By discussing such events as the 1878
court case that placed William's character and reputation on trial,
this book also invites readers to reconsider the Crafts' triumphal
story as one that is messy, unresolved, and bittersweet. An
important episode in African American literature, history, and
culture, this will be essential reading for teachers and students
of the slave narrative genre and the transatlantic antislavery
movement and for researchers investigating early
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