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    Ellen Craft (1826–1891) and William Craft (September 25, 1824 – January 29, 1900) were American abolitionists who were born into slavery in Macon, Georgia...
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  • College and a PhD in English from Columbia University. Her 2023 book Master Slave Husband Wife, a history of the escape of Ellen and William Craft from slavery...
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    partner to legally marry once they were free. Ellen and William Craft were both born into slavery and were separated from their parents at a young age...
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    Boston Vigilance Committee (category Pro-fugitive slave riots and civil disorder in the United States)
    legal and other aid to George Latimer, Ellen and William Craft, Shadrach Minkins, Thomas Sims, and Anthony Burns. Members coordinated with donors and Underground...
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    Lay James McCune Smith John Brown William Wells Brown Oren Burbank Cheney Thomas Clarkson Ellen and William Craft Frederick Douglass Sarah Mapps Douglass...
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  • House (1853). The surname Crafts, her pen name, was at one time thought to be a tribute to the slaves Ellen and William Craft, whose bold escape in 1848...
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  • the album Ten Master Slave Husband Wife (2023), a history of Ellen and William Craft's escape from slavery by Ilyon Woo Master (disambiguation) Slave...
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    in Louisiana. According to Northup, Edwin Epps had "repulsive and coarse" manners and did not have a sense "of kindness or of justice." When drunk, he...
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  • and other boys undergo a semi-secretive tribal rite of passage, under the Kintango, which includes wrestling, circumcision, philosophy, war-craft and...
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    compiled and detailed documentation about those that he had helped escape into the pages of The Underground Railroad Records. Ellen and William Craft John...
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    Kentucky who escaped and fled to the free state of Ohio in 1856. Garner was subject to capture under the Fugitive Slave Act of 1850, and when U.S. marshals...
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    ISBN 0-8264-1752-3. Koskoff, Ellen, ed. (2000). Garland Encyclopedia of World Music, Volume 3: The United States and Canada. Garland Publishing. ISBN 0-8240-4944-6...
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    African-American slaves Ellen and William Craft were given a home by a parishioner in Ockham in 1851. They attended the Ockham School, and paid for their education...
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  • throughout World War I Ellen and William Craft, Abolitionist leaders John C. Daniels, Mayor of New Haven, Connecticut and Connecticut State Senator Eugene...
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    northeast to Sandtown and Willow Grove, Delaware, and to the Camden area where free black agents, William and Nat Brinkley and Abraham Gibbs, guided her...
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    Hammersmith (category Districts of the London Borough of Hammersmith and Fulham)
    (1783–1852), civil engineer, designer of first Hammersmith bridge Ellen and William Craft, (1826–1891, 1824–1900), slave abolitionists Jeanne Deroin (1805–1894)...
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  • Slave narrative (category Islam and slavery)
    Slave and as a Freeman, a Narrative of Real Life, 1859 Ellen and William Craft, Running a thousand Miles for Freedom, or the Escape of William and Ellen Craft...
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  • 12 Years a Slave (film) (category Films about violins and violinists)
    Georgia, and sells him to plantation owner William Ford. Ford takes a liking to Northup and gives him a violin. Tensions between Northup and plantation...
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    Thomas Crafts Jr. conducted an autopsy on Attucks. He was "felled by two bullets to his chest, one of them 'goring the right lobe of the lungs and a great...
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  • Goodbye Uncle Tom (category Films about race and ethnicity)
    others. The film ends with an unidentified man’s fantasy re-enactment of William Styron's The Confessions of Nat Turner. This man imagines Nat Turner's...
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    Uncle Tom (category Anti-African and anti-black slurs)
    (1969). Puttin' On Ole Massa: The Slave Narratives of Henry Bibb, William Wells Brown, and Solomon Northup. Harper & Row. ISBN 978-0-06-131432-2. Mohammad...
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    Uncle Tom's Cabin (category CS1 maint: date and year)
    Images and Interpretation" (PDF). Illinois Library Association Reporter. 33 (2). Goldner, Ellen J. (Spring 2001). "Arguing with Pictures: Race, Class and the...
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    Guests included Ellen and William Craft, who escaped from slavery in 1848. Hayden prevented slave catchers from taking the Crafts by threatening to...
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  • to have been an indentured servant, Punch attempted to escape to Maryland and was sentenced in July 1640 by the Virginia Governor's Council to serve as...
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    say always The Lord be praised!    The Lord be praised! List of slaves Ellen Craft Slavery in the United States Abolitionism in the United States Fugitive...
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    he worked as a waiter for a caterer and was a whitewasher. He became a caterer, working with his brother William and in the 1870s he opened his own catering...
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    such as "Running a Thousand Miles for Freedom" by Ellen and William Craft, to emphasize the moral and religious implications of slavery. Hannah Hurnard's...
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  • system with safe houses and secret routes. The book was a critical and commercial success, hitting the bestseller lists and winning several literary...
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    Boston: Crosby, Nichols, and Company, 1854; Documents of the American South, University of North Carolina The Other Touissant by Ellen Tarry at the Open Library...
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    Turner, Nat; Truth, Sojourner; Jacobs, Harriet; Prince, Mary; Craft, William; Craft, Ellen (2017). Slavery: Hundreds of Documented Testimonies of Former...
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