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An ingenious escape from slavery, on this weeks Futility Closet podcast (013). Georgia slaves Ellen and William Craft made a daring bid for freedom in 1848: Ellen dressed as a white man and, attended by William as her servant, undertook a perilous 1,000-mile journey by carriage, train, and steamship to the free state of Pennsylvania in the North. In this weeks episode of the Futility Closet podcast well follow the couples harrowing five-day adventure through the slave-owning South.
Posted on: Wed, 11 Jun 2014 14:27:35 +0000

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