Slaves William and Ellen Craft’s dangerous journey to freedom in the mid-1800s. David Wright interviews best-selling author Ilyon Woo about her new book, "Master Slave Husband Wife." Woo tells the ...

Inside the Boston Public Library, deep in the stacks, are clues to an escape from slavery in 1848 – a breathtaking combination of daring and deception. Author Ilyon Woo, who has spent the last seven ...

Ellen, whose father was a slaver, was white enough to pass, but as a woman she could not easily travel unaccompanied in 1848. So this skilled seamstress created an outfit that enabled her to pose as a ...

We have the story of a divided nation - not divided as we know now, but divided between states that banned slavery and states that embraced it. In 1848, in the slave state of Georgia, a husband and ...

Righting a wrong from Missouri's dark past. Before leaving office, Gov. Mike Parson decided to posthumously pardon a 19-year-old slave. Celia Newsome was executed for killing her slave master after he ...

“Master Slave Husband Wife,” by Ilyon Woo, relates the daring escape from bondage in Georgia to freedom in the North by an enslaved couple disguised as a wealthy planter and his property.

Georgia Democrat Sen. Emanuel Jones took a state senate debate over a statue to new extremes on Tuesday, likening Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas to an “Uncle Tom” who “sold his soul to the ...

In "Master Slave Husband Wife: An Epic Journey from Slavery to Freedom" (Simon & Schuster), author Ilyon Woo recounts a remarkable 19th century story of deception, in which a fair-skinned enslaved ...