She Escaped Slavery Disguised as a White Man. Her Husband Played Her Slave.

In December 1848, Ellen Craft, an enslaved woman in Macon, Georgia, cut her hair, put on a top hat, green glasses and a sling, and travelled as a sick white planter named William Johnson. Her husband William travelled as her slave. For four days they rode trains and steamboats through the slave South, past a friend of her enslaver, a slave dealer and an officer in Baltimore, and reached Philadelphia on Christmas Day. Then the Fugitive Slave Act sent slave catchers after them, and they had to run again, all the way to England. Every fact in this video comes from at least two reliable sources. In this video 0:00 Disguised as a white man 0:36 Macon, Georgia 1:45 The plan 2:59 The escape, December 1848 5:00 Boston and the slave catchers 6:23 England 7:14 Coming home 7:59 Legacy Sources National Park Service: "A Desperate Leap for Liberty": The Escape of William and Ellen Craft. https://www.nps.gov/articles/-a-despe... National Park Service: Ellen Craft. https://www.nps.gov/people/ellen-craf... Library of Congress blog: An 1848 Christmas Story, the Gift of Freedom. https://blogs.loc.gov/loc/2018/12/an-... National Geographic: Ellen Craft escaped slavery by disguising herself as a white man. https://www.nationalgeographic.com/hi... History.com: The Daring Disguise that Helped One Enslaved Couple Escape to Freedom. https://www.history.com/articles/slav... New Georgia Encyclopedia: William and Ellen Craft. https://www.georgiaencyclopedia.org/a... William and Ellen Craft, Running a Thousand Miles for Freedom (London, 1860). https://archive.org/details/runningth... Images: public domain (Running a Thousand Miles for Freedom, 1860; Library of Congress; New York Public Library; Boston Public Library; National Gallery of Art; Wikimedia Commons). Support the channel: https://ko-fi.com/theblackhistoryroom #BlackHistory #EllenCraft #UndergroundRailroad #History #Documentary