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Craft, William

 
9780807123201: Running a Thousand Miles for Freedom: The Escape of William and Ellen Craft from Slavery
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ISBN 10 : 080712320X ISBN 13 : 9780807123201
Editeur : Louisiana State University Press, 1999

Synopsis

Husband and wife William and Ellen Craft's break from slavery in 1848 was perhaps the most extraordinary in American history. Numerous newspaper reports in the United States and abroad told of how the two -- fair-skinned Ellen disguised as a white slave master and William posing as her servant -- negotiated heart-pounding brushes with discovery while fleeing Macon, Georgia, for Philadelphia and eventually Boston. No account, though, conveyed the ingenuity, daring, good fortune, and love that characterized their flight for freedom better than the couple's own version, published in 1860, a remarkable authorial accomplishment only twelve years beyond illiteracy. Now their stirring first-person narrative and Richard Blackett's excellent interpretive pieces are brought together in one volume to tell the complete story of the Crafts.

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À propos de l'auteur

Richard J. M. Blackett is the Andrew Jackson Professor ofHistory at Vanderbilt University and the author of several booksabout nineteenth-century history, including Divided Hearts: Britain and the American Civil War.

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Éditeur
Louisiana State University Press
Date d'édition
1999
Langue
anglais
ISBN 10 
080712320X
ISBN 13 
9780807123201
Reliure
Broché
Nombre de pages
120
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