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Craft Ellen:     more books (100)

The Daring Escape of Ellen Craft (On My Own History) by Cathy Moore, 2002-02 The Flexible Lyric (The Life of Poetry: Poets on Their Art and Craft) by Ellen Bryant Voigt, 1999-11-30 Running a Thousand Miles for Freedom by William and Ellen Craft, 2009-12-04 How to Profit from Flower and Herb Crafts by Ellen Spector Platt, 1996-09 50 Ways to Get Your CartOn: Recycle & Create Milk and Egg Carton Crafts That Rock by Ellen Warwick, 2010-04-06 5,000 Miles to Freedom: Ellen and William Craft's Flight from Slavery by Dennis Fradin, Judith Fradin, 2006-01-24 Running a Thousand Miles for Freedom; or, The Escape of William and Ellen Craft From Slavery (Dodo Press) by William Craft, Ellen Craft, 2009-02-06 Paper-thin Alibi: A Craft Corner Mystery (Wheeler Large Print Cozy Mystery) by Mary Ellen Hughes, 2008-11-19 Running a Thousand Miles for Freedom; Or, the Escape of William and Ellen Craft from Slavery by William Craft, 2010-01-09 Running a Thousand Miles for Freedom; or, the escape of William and Ellen Craft from slavery by Ellen WilliamCraft Craft, 2010-01-29 Running A Thousand Miles For Freedom: The Escape Of William & Ellen Craft From Slavery (Volume 1) by William Craft, Tom Thomas, 2009-03-02 Apostles of Beauty: Arts and Crafts from Britain to Chicago (Art Institute of Chicago) Fibrecraft Sampler (Chilton's creative crafts series) by Ellen Appel, 1979-04 Embroidered Home: Beautiful Embroidered Crafts for Your Home by Ellen Moore Johnson, 2001-10

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1. Ellen And William Craft
   Ellen and William Craft Ellen and William Craft were slaves, and although they were husband and wife, they lived over a hundred miles apart. Ellen was light skinned enough to be able to pass for white. for a few weeks before moving on to Boston. Ellen Craft found employment as a seamstress and William as a cabinetmaker.  
   http://www.nps.gov/boaf/craft~1.htm

2. Georgia Women Of Achievement: 1996 Inductee ELLEN SMITH CRAFT
   Ellen Smith Craft 1826 1891 I had much rather starve in England, a free woman, than be a slave for the best man that ever breathed upon the American continent.  
   http://www.gawomen.org/honorees/crafte.htm
   
   Extractions: “I had much rather starve in England, a free woman, than be a slave for the best man that ever breathed upon the American continent.” Ellen Smith Craft, the child of an African American woman and her white owner, was born into slavery in Clinton, Georgia. Sold, she was taken by a new owner to Macon where she met and married another slave, William Craft. Together, they devised a plan to escape. With Ellen posing as William’s master, they traveled by train to Philadelphia. They moved on to Boston, which was considered safer, but under the Fugitive Slave Act, their Georgia owners pursued them until they fled to England. In 1869, they returned to the South. Despite many hardships, they established a cooperative farm for former slaves and a school in Bryan County for their children. Although the projects failed and the Crafts died in poverty, Ellen is remembered for her belief in the dignity and worth of all human beings and her determination to shape a better future for succeeding generations. Year inducted: 1996 Learn more about Ellen Smith Craft Where to go for more information: Tubman African American Museum

3. Ellen And William Craft
   Ellen and William Craft. Craft, Ellen and William, name of two African Americanabolitionists who were husband and wife. HENRY BROWN. ELLEN CRAFT. SUPPORTER.  
   http://www.africanaonline.com/slavery_ellen_william_craft.htm
   
   Extractions: Ellen and William Craft Craft, Ellen and William, name of two African American abolitionists who were husband and wife. Ellen Craft (1826-1891) was a light-skinned black who helped her and her husband escape from slavery by passing as white; William Craft (1824-1900) is known for the autobiographical slave narrative that described the couple's dramatic escape. Ellen was born in Clinton, Georgia, to a biracial slave woman and her master and was so light-skinned that she was often mistaken for a member of her father's white family. This infuriated her mistress and, as a result, at age 11 Ellen was given as a wedding gift to a daughter who lived in Macon. There Ellen met William, whom she married in 1846. Two years later, the Crafts began to devise their escape plan, which involved Ellen posing as a white slaveholder traveling with "his" slave William. This plan required several levels of deception. Because a white woman would not travel alone with a male slave, Ellen had to pretend to be not only white but a white man. She cut her hair, changed her walk, and wrapped her jaw in bandages to disguise her lack of a beard. To hide her illiteracy, she wrapped her right arm in a sling to have a ready excuse for being unable to sign papers; and she explained all of the bandages by claiming to be an invalid traveling north to receive medical care. In this manner, the Crafts traveled from Georgia to Pennsylvania by train, steamer, and ferry without being discovered. They arrived in Philadelphia on Christmas Day in 1848.

4. Georgia Women Of Achievement: 1996 Inductee ELLEN SMITH CRAFT
   Ellen Smith Craft 1826 1891 Ellen Smith Craft is a Georgia woman whose life story reads like a Hollywood script of adventure and courage an  
   http://www.gawomen.org/honorees/long/crafte_long.htm
   
   Extractions: Ellen Smith Craft is a Georgia woman whose life story reads like a Hollywood script of adventure and courage: an unlikely escape from the shackles of slavery followed by the selfless pursuit of justice despite continuing threats to her own safety and well-being. Ellen and William were allowed to marry in 1846, but they could not live together since they belonged to different owners. They endured this separation for a while but soon began to save money and plan an escape. While their plan seems incredible, it worked. Ellen disguised herself as a white gentleman, placing her arm in a sling to cover her inability to write, and wrapping her head in a bandage to hide her lack of beard. She pretended to be traveling, first-class, to Philadelphia for medical treatment. William went as her slave. After several harrowing encounters, they got to Savannah by train, took a boat to Charleston and then the train again, to Maryland. Once in free territory, they made contact with an Abolitionist group. Ellen stayed with a Quaker family in Philadelphia who nursed her through a serious illness. But for safety they moved on to Boston, the main center of the Abolitionist movement, where they supported themselves through their trades, cabinet-making for William and sewing for Ellen. Both became active in the abolitionist movement and gained fame on the lecture circuit; stories about them were published in The New York Herald, The Boston Globe, and the Georgia Journal and The Macon Telegraph.

5. Voices From The Gaps: Ellen Craft
   ELLEN CRAFT (CIRCA 1826 CIRCA 1897). PROJECT INFO. Overview and purpose ofthe program. Awards. Ellen Craft was born around 1826 in Clinton, Georgia.  
   http://voices.cla.umn.edu/authors/CRAFTellen.html
   
   Extractions: (CIRCA 1826 - CIRCA 1897) PROJECT INFO Overview and purpose of the program Awards List of contributors Permissions list ... Contact us (please note that we have no contact with the writers and cannot provide contact information) "So I write these few lines merely to say that the statement is entirely unfounded, for I have never had the slightest inclination whatever of returning to bondage; and God forbid that I should ever be so false to liberty as to prefer slavery in its stead. In fact, since my escape from slavery, I have gotten much better in every respect than I could have possibly anticipated. Though, had it been to the contrary, my feelings in regard to this would have been just the same, for I had much rather starve in England, a free woman, than be a slave for the best man that ever breathed upon the American continent." Anti-Slavery Advocate , December 1852 Click to go to: Biography - Criticism Selected Bibliography Related Links BIOGRAPHY - CRITICISM Many an audience became fascinated with the remarkable story of Ellen Craft as she and her husband William toured the abolitionist lecture circuit in the mid-nineteenth century. Though stories of escape told by former slaves were not uncommon to abolitionist audiences, Ellen's story proved especially intriguing since she courageously passed as both white and male in order to get herself and William to freedom in the North.

6. William Craft. Running A Thousand Miles Fo Freedom; Or, The Escape Of William An
   or, the Escape of William and Ellen Craft from Slavery. London William Tweedie, 1860.  
   http://docsouth.unc.edu/neh/craft/menu.html

7. Ellen's North Carolina Craft Show -
   Pictures and details from Ellen's Craft Show Those of you who join us in chat know of Ellen's Craft show. Ellen is in North Carolina, USA.  
   http://sewing.about.com/library/blellen.htm

8. Documenting The American South
   Search Results. 1 title with subject Craft, Ellen. Running a Thousand Miles forFreedom; or, the Escape of William and Ellen Craft from Slavery. William Craft  
   http://docsouth.unc.edu/result.phtml?lcsh=Craft, Ellen.

9. PROJECT GUTENBERG OFFICIAL HOME SITE -- Listing By AUTHOR
   William and Ellen Craft.  
   http://promo.net/cgi-promo/pg/cat.cgi?&label=ID&ftpsite=ftp://ibiblio.or

10. Project Gutenberg Titles By Craft, Ellen
    Project Gutenberg Titles by. Ellen Craft. Running a Thousand Miles forFreedom or, The Escape of William and Ellen Craft from Slavery.  
    http://digital.library.upenn.edu/webbin/gutbook/author?name=Craft, Ellen

11. Craft, Ellen
    Craft, Ellen. Craft (18261897), along with her husband, escaped fromslavery to freedom. She disguised herself as her husband's master.  
    http://www.ddc2000.com/products/samples/ss2kwebdemo/grade5/support/data/unit53/0
    
    Extractions: Craft (1826-1897), along with her husband, escaped from slavery to freedom. She disguised herself as her husband's master. The two successfully traveled four days from Georgia to Philadelphia where abolitionists gave them shelter and protection from slave hunters until they could leave for England to escape runaway slave laws . In 1868, the Crafts and their five children returned to the United States, bought a plantation, and opened a trade school for African Americans.

12. William Craft. Running A Thousand Miles For Freedom; Or, The Escape Of William A
    Running a Thousand Miles for Freedom; or, the Escape of William and Ellen Craft from Slavery By William Craft  
    http://docsouth.unc.edu/neh/craft/frontis.html

13. African Slavery Images
    Craft, Ellen and William name of two African American abolitionistswho were husband and wife. Ellen Craft (18261891) was a light  
    http://www.africanaonline.com/slavery.htm
    
    Extractions: Underground Railroad You are a slave. Your body, your time, your very breath belong to a farmer in 1850s Maryland. Six long days a week you tend his fields and make him rich. You have never tasted freedom. You never expect to. And yet . . . your soul lights up when you hear whispers of attempted escape. Freedom means a hard, dangerous trek. Do you try it? Rosewood Slavery has appeared in many forms throughout its long history. Slaves have served in capacities as diverse as concubines, warriors, servants, craftsmen, tutors, and victims of ritual sacrifice. In the New World (the Americas), however, slavery emerged as a system of forced labor designed to facilitate the production of staple crops

14. African American Registry: Ellen & William Craft Escape To Freedom
    slavery. William and Ellen Craft's selfliberation is one of the mostremarkable escapes ever recorded in a historic slave narrative.  
    http://www.aaregistry.com/african_american_history/286/Ellen__William_Craft_esca
    
    Extractions: The Crafts (in character) This date recalls the lives of Ellen and William Craft. Ellen and William Craft were two African-American abolitionists known for William's autobiographical slave narrative that described the couple's dramatic escape from slavery. William and Ellen Craft's self-liberation is one of the most remarkable escapes ever recorded in a historic slave narrative. Ellen was born in 1826 in Clinton, Georgia, to a biracial slave woman and her white master, and was so light-skinned that she was often mistaken for a member of her father's family. This infuriated her mistress and, as a result, at age 11 Ellen was given as a wedding gift to a daughter who lived in Macon. There she met William, whom she married in 1846. Two years later, the Crafts began to devise their escape plan, which involved Ellen posing as a white slaveholder traveling with "his" slave, William. This required several levels of deception. She cut her hair, changed her walk, and wrapped her jaw in bandages to disguise her lack of a beard. To hide her illiteracy, she wrapped her right arm in a sling to have a ready excuse for being unable to sign papers; and Craft explained all of the bandages by claiming to be an invalid traveling north to receive medical care. In this manner, the Crafts traveled from Georgia to Pennsylvania by train, steamer, and ferry without being discovered.

15. Voices From The Gaps: Ellen Craft
    Women Writers of Color. Ellen Craft. (circa 1826 circa 1897). So Iwrite these Biography - Criticism. Ellen Craft. Many an audience became  
    http://voices.cla.umn.edu/authors/ellencraft.html

16. Books By William And Ellen Craft
    Author William and Ellen Craft Entry 585 Running a Thousand Miles for Freedom  
    http://www.gutenberg.org/index/by-author/cr0.html

17. Lecture On Escaped Slave Ellen Craft
    426 0406-00 PUBLIC INQUIRIES Joanne Goodwin - 895-1026 MEDIA INQUIRIESDiane Russell - (702) 895-0894. LECTURE ON ESCAPED SLAVE Ellen Craft.  
    http://www.unlv.edu/News_Bureau/News_Releases/2000/Apr00/426.html
    
    Extractions: MEDIA INQUIRIES: Diane Russell - (702) 895-0894 "Silence, Restraint, and a New Black Woman in the Narratives of Ellen Craft" will be the subject of an April 18 lecture at UNLV by University of Georgia professor Barbara McCaskill. The lecture, which is free and open to the public, is scheduled for 7 p.m. in Frank and Estella Beam Hall, Room 104. McCaskill is an associate professor of English and the co-founder and editor of the journal, Womanist Theory and Research. She is the author of Running 1,000 Miles for Freedom: The Narrative of William and Ellen Craft, which was published last year. McCaskill's lecture will focus on Craft, who achieved notoriety after she and her husband, William, escaped from slavery in Georgia in 1848. As part of their escape plan, Ellen had successfully posed as a white male Southern planter. The Crafts subsequently published a book about their lives. McCaskill's talk is sponsored by UNLV's Women's Research Institute of Nevada, the women's studies program, the office of diversity initiatives, and the office of multicultural student affairs. For additional information, call Joanne Goodwin, director of the institute and associate professor of history, at 895-1026.

18. 19CWWW Etext Library: Ellen And William Craft
    19CWWW Etext Library Ellen and William Craft. Ellen and William Craft.Running a Thousand Miles to Freedom. Changes made while digitizing  
    http://www.unl.edu/legacy/19cwww/books/elibe/craft/home.htm

19. 19CWWW Etext Library: Ellen And William Craft
    My dear Mr Estlin, I trust that in God's good providence this letter willbe handed to you in safety by our good friends, William and Ellen Craft.  
    http://www.unl.edu/legacy/19cwww/books/elibe/craft/craftb.htm

20. JMISC #57: Wm. & Ellen Craft's Stories Of Slavery
    Wm. Ellen Craft's Stories of Slavery. William and Ellen Craft. RUNNING A THOUSANDMILES FOR FREEDOM OR, THE ESCAPE OF WILLIAM AND Ellen Craft FROM SLAVERY.  
    http://www.earlyrepublic.net/jm980414.htm
    
    Extractions: Jacksonian Miscellanies, #57 April 14, 1998 Jacksonian Miscellanies is a weekly* email newsletter presenting short** documents from the United States' Jacksonian Era, which you can receive it for free by sending to hal@panix.com a message with as either the subject line, or as the *only* line in the message body. If you want to make a comment or query, please send a separate message to hal@panix.com ((* Biweekly in the summer ** Typically 10-20 pages of printed text)) Jacksonian Miscellanies can also be read at http:// www.panix.com/~hal/jmisc . The WWW version is augmented with much biographical, bibliographical, and other information. Please direct responses and comments to hal@panix.com The following is from Project Gutenburg's ( http://www.promo.net/pg/ ) copy of Running A Thousand Miles For Freedom by the escaped slaves William and Ellen Craft (London, W. Tweedie, 1860) (there is an Arno Reprint in 1969 - if it exists in any other form, such as an anthology, I would like to know). The authors had escaped their slavery in Georgia in 1848, become a cause celebre in Boston in 1850 when Bostonians led by Thodore Parker repulsed kidnappers out to take them back. By 1860, they were living in England.

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