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Daring Escape of Ellen Craft

Daring Escape of Ellen Craft

On My Own History and On My Own History (Paperback)

Cathy Moore, Author

Mary O'Keefe Young, Illustrator

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9780876147870

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Tells of the daring escape of a slave couple in 1848, with the woman, Ellen Croft, posing as a white man, and her husband posing as the man's slave.
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Keywords and Themes: African American & Black • Biography & Autobiography • Historical • History • JNF007020 • JNF007120 • JNF018010 • JNF025270 • Juvenile Nonfiction • United States - Civil War Period (1850-1877) • Women

Age Range • 7-10

Pages • 48

Subjects • England • Slaves • Fugitive slaves • United States • African Americans • Craft • Ellen • Craft • William • Georgia

Categories • Juvenile Nonfiction | Biography & Autobiography | Historical • Juvenile Nonfiction | Biography & Autobiography | Women • Juvenile Nonfiction | History | United States - Civil War Period (1850-1877) • Juvenile Nonfiction | African American & Black

On December 21, 1848, Ellen Craft and her husband, William, slipped out into the cold, dark night and took their first steps towards freedom. They were runaway slaves. Posing as a white man traveling with a slave, Ellen courageously boarded a train bound for Philadelphia. Could they actually make it a thousand miles without being discovered? As each tension-filled day passed and freedom got closer, Ellen and William risked everything - even death - to be free.

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