Part one of term paper
Ellen Craft was born to Maria, a slave and her owner, Major James Smith, in Clinton, Georgia. At a young age, Ellen was separated from her mother (Craft 2). In Running a Thousand Miles from Freedom, William Craft states “that the mere thought of her (Ellen) ever becoming the mother of a child, to linger out a miserable existence under the ...

Part two of term paper
... the consent of their owners. From that time until December 1848, they devised a plan for their escape(Craft 27). While most slaves escaped through swamps and forests, the Crafts escaped publicly by train. Ellen posed as an old white man traveling with his slave. She wore this disguise because women could not travel alone with slaves. To pull this off, they covered her face with a handkerchief. They felt that her smooth skin wouldn’t look very convincing. She also had her arm in a cast, so that ...