Ellen Craft (c.1826-1897), the daughter of a slave and her white master, became a leading abolitionist after she escaped from slavery. The very light-skinned Craft disguised herself as a white man and escaped with her husband who acted as her man-servant. In 1860, the couple published a book-length account of their experience called Running a Thousand Miles for Freedom.
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