Ellen Craft's Bold Disguise

Ellen Craft's Bold Disguise

Ellen Smith Craft

Ellen Craft was a 19th-century self-emancipated American who escaped slavery alongside her husband, William Craft. She is famous for gaining her freedom through a daring disguise, traveling from the South to the North as a white male planter accompanied by her husband acting as her servant. Their escape became an iconic case that widely exposed the inhumanity of slavery and significantly influenced the abolitionist movement.

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Year Ellen Smith Craft
1826
Birth of Ellen Smith Craft (Period: 1826 (Exact date unknown), Location: Clinton, Georgia, United States (Present-day Jones County, Georgia area))
1840
Marriage (Ellen Smith Craft and William Craft, Age: 14 years old, Period: Early 1840s (Exact date unknown), Location: Macon, Georgia (Southern United States))
1848
Craft Marriage (Age: 22 years old, Period: December 1848, Location: Macon, Georgia → Philadelphia (Northeastern United States))
1861
American Civil War (Age: 35 years old, Period: 1861–1865, Location: North Carolina, Virginia, etc.)
1863
Emancipation Proclamation (Age: 37 years old, Period: 1863, Location: United States)
1891
Death of Ellen Smith Craft (Age: 65 years old, Period: 1891 (Died after returning to the United States following time spent in Surrey, England, etc.))

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