The story of William and Ellen Craft In the SCAD-produced documentary A Thousand Miles and Counting, William and Ellen Craft's daring escape from slavery is retold by descendants of the Craft family — Gail DeCosta, Peggy Trotter Dammond Preacely, and Vicki Davis Williams — along with Dr. Walter O. Evans, a member of the Ruskin Society and benefactor of the SCAD Museum of Art's Walter O. Evans Collection of African American Art, and Joël Díaz, director of the museum's Walter O. Evans Center for A
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Ellen and William Craft escaped slavery in a genius disguise, with Ellen passing as a disabled, White man and William posing as "his" slave. Author Ilyon Woo discusses the Crafts' epic adventure in their journey to freedom in #MasterSlaveHusbandWife. Out now: https://www.simonandschuster.com/books/Master-Slave-Husband-Wife/Ilyon-Woo/9781501191053 | History in Five
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