Master Slave Husband Wife

I enthusiastically join the crowds of fans to celebrate and honor the true story of Ellen and William Craft so effortlessly written by Ilyon Woo. The two slaves escaped Georgia by flipping the script of gender and racial norms and slid up the East Coast and over the Atlantic Ocean until they were finally free. Ellen effortlessly passed as a sickly, well-to-do white man, and William, the devoted slave, escaped the South, making them celebrities along the way. They toured New England, telling their story with Frederick Douglass and Henry 'Box' Brown until the Fugitive Slave Act of 1850 threw them back into danger, forcing them to leave the country. Through all the near misses and close calls, Ellen yearned for her mother, whom she was separated from as a child, and continues to hold out hope of a reunion. For lovers of history, the core of this book gives a very robust picture of our nation's history and all the major players at that time.

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