Author: William Craft
Publisher:
ISBN: OCLC:1194925859
Category: Fugitive slaves
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Running a Thousand Miles for Freedom
Running a Thousand Miles for Freedom
This book is not intended as a full history of the life of my wife nor of myself; but merely as an account of our escape; together with other matter which I hope may be the means of creating in some minds a deeper abhorrence of the sinful ...
Author: William Craft
Publisher: BiblioBazaar, LLC
ISBN: 1434605124
Category: History
Page: 80
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This book is not intended as a full history of the life of my wife nor of myself; but merely as an account of our escape; together with other matter which I hope may be the means of creating in some minds a deeper abhorrence of the sinful and abominable practice of enslaving and brutifying our fellow-creatures.' (Excerpt from original Introduction)Running a Thousand Miles for Freedom Or the Escape of William and Ellen Craft from Slavery
HAVING heard while in Slavery that "God made of one blood all nations of men," and also that the American Declaration of Independence says, that "We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal; that they are endowed ...
Author: William Craft
Publisher:
ISBN: 9798599827665
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Page: 104
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HAVING heard while in Slavery that "God made of one blood all nations of men," and also that the American Declaration of Independence says, that "We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal; that they are endowed by their Creator with certain inalienable rights; that among these, are life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness;" we could not understand by what right we were held as "chattels." Therefore, we felt perfectly justified in undertaking the dangerous and exciting task of "running a thousand miles" in order to obtain those rights which are so vividly set forth in the Declaration. I beg those who would know the particulars of our journey, to peruse these pages. This book is not intended as a full history of the life of my wife, nor of myself; but merely as an account of our escape; together with other matter which I hope may be the means of creating in some minds a deeper abhorrence of the sinful and abominable practice of enslaving and brutifying our fellow-creatures. Without stopping to write a long apology for offering this little volume to the public, I shall commence at once to pursue my simple story. - William Craft from "Running a Thousand Miles for Freedom; or, the Escape of William and Ellen Craft from Slavery"Running a Thousand Miles for Freedom The Escape of William and Ellen Craft From Slavery
"Running a Thousand Miles for Freedom" is a written account by Ellen Craft and William Craft first published in 1860.
Author: William Craft
Publisher: e-artnow
ISBN: 9788026883142
Category: Biography & Autobiography
Page: 77
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"Running a Thousand Miles for Freedom" is a written account by Ellen Craft and William Craft first published in 1860. Their book reached wide audiences in Great Britain and the United States and it represents one of the most compelling of the many slave narratives published before the American Civil War. Ellen (1826–1891) and William Craft (1824 - 1900) were slaves from Macon, Georgia in the United States who escaped to the North in December 1848 by traveling openly by train and steamboat, arriving in Philadelphia on Christmas Day.The Long Walk to Freedom
TWELVE From Running a Thousand Miles for Freedom; or, the Escape of William
and Ellen Craft from Slavery. Polished in 1860, William Craft's memoir of escape
from slavery with his wife, Ellen, is one of the most extraordinary fugitive ...
Author: Devon W. Carbado
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780807069127
Category: History
Page: 248
View: 492
Collects the accounts of runaway slaves from the antebellum South, including Frederick Douglass, Nat Turner, and Henry Box Brown.Against a Sharp White Background
Most contemporary readers will be familiar with their narrative as presented in
Running a Thousand Miles for Freedom; or, The Escape of William and Ellen
Craft from Slavery (1860); the book was reissued twice in the late twentieth
century by ...
Author: Brigitte Fielder
Publisher: University of Wisconsin Press
ISBN: 9780299321505
Category: Literary Criticism
Page: 332
View: 222
The work of black writers, editors, publishers, and librarians is deeply embedded in the history of American print culture, from slave narratives to digital databases. While the printed word can seem democratizing, it remains that the infrastructures of print and digital culture can be as limiting as they are enabling. Contributors to this volume explore the relationship between expression and such frameworks, analyzing how different mediums, library catalogs, and search engines shape the production and reception of written and visual culture. Topics include antebellum literature, the Harlem Renaissance, the Black Arts Movement; “post-Black” art, the role of black librarians, and how present-day technologies aid or hinder the discoverability of work by African Americans. Against a Sharp White Background covers elements of production, circulation, and reception of African American writing across a range of genres and contexts. This collection challenges mainstream book history and print culture to understand that race and racialization are inseparable from the study of texts and their technologies.Escapes from Slavery
Quoted in Craft and Craft, Running a Thousand Miles to Freedom, p. 61. 13.
Quoted in Craft and Craft, Running a Thousand Miles to Freedom, p. 61. 14. Craft
and Craft, Running a Thousand Miles to Freedom, p. 68. 15. Quoted in Sterling ...
Author: Stephen Currie
Publisher:
ISBN: 1590182766
Category: Juvenile Nonfiction
Page: 112
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Offers the narratives of five escapes from slavery, each of which was typical in many ways but featured unusual personal characteristics or circumstances that made these trips to freedom extraordinary.Love Liberation and Escaping Slavery
By discussing such events as the 1878 court case that placed William's character and reputation on trial, this book also invites readers to reconsider the Crafts' triumphal story as one that is messy, unresolved, and bittersweet.
Author: Barbara McCaskill
Publisher: University of Georgia Press
ISBN: 9780820347240
Category: Biography & Autobiography
Page: 132
View: 219
The spectacular 1848 escape of William and Ellen Craft (1824 1900; 1826 1891) from slavery in Macon, Georgia, is a dramatic story in the annals of American history. Ellen, who could pass for white, disguised herself as a gentleman slaveholder; William accompanied her as his master s devoted slave valet; both traveled openly by train, steamship, and carriage to arrive in free Philadelphia on Christmas Day. In "Love, Liberation, and Escaping Slavery," Barbara McCaskill revisits this dual escape and examines the collaborations and partnerships that characterized the Crafts activism for the next thirty years: in Boston, where they were on the run again after the passage of the 1850 Fugitive Slave Law; in England; and in Reconstruction-era Georgia. McCaskill also provides a close reading of the Crafts only book, their memoir, "Running a Thousand Miles for Freedom," published in 1860. Yet as this study of key moments in the Crafts public lives argues, the early print archive newspapers, periodicals, pamphlets, legal documents fills gaps in their story by providing insight into how they navigated the challenges of freedom as reformers and educators, and it discloses the transatlantic British and American audiences changing reactions to them. By discussing such events as the 1878 court case that placed William s character and reputation on trial, this book also invites readers to reconsider the Crafts triumphal story as one that is messy, unresolved, and bittersweet. An important episode in African American literature, history, and culture, this will be essential reading for teachers and students of the slave narrative genre and the transatlantic antislavery movement and for researchers investigating early American print culture."Bound in Wedlock
William Craft, Running a Thousand Miles for Freedom; or, the Escape of William
and Ellen Craft from Slavery (London: William Tweedie, 1860; reprinted. Miami:
Mnemosyne Publishing Co., 1969), 16. 19. Craft, Running a Thousand Miles for ...
Author: Tera W. Hunter
Publisher: Belknap Press
ISBN: 9780674237452
Category: African Americans
Page: 404
View: 298
Tera W. Hunter offers the first comprehensive history of African American marriage in the nineteenth century and into the Jim Crow era. She reveals the practical ways couples adopted, adapted, or rejected White Christian ideas of marriage, creatively setting their own standards for conjugal relationships under conditions of uncertainty and cruelty.--Masterplots II
Running a Thousand Miles for Freedom / CRAFT AND CRAFT 1647 interjects
verses that are apparently of Craft's own composition . He closes his account by
affirming that England knows well of the meanness and cruelty of Americans ...
Author: Tyrone Williams
Publisher: Salem PressInc
ISBN: 1587654423
Category: Literary Criticism
Page: 2064
View: 417
Examines the themes, characters, plots, style, and technique of works by African-American authors.Picturing Slavery
Chapter Two : The Use in Seeing : Mobilizing Spectacle in Running a Thousand
Miles for Freedom Get up ! You can do the wench no good ; therefore there is no
use in your seeing her . --From Running a Thousand Miles for Freedom ...
Author: Michael A. Chaney
Publisher:
ISBN: IND:30000094867474
Category: American literature
Page: 628
View: 625
The Civitas Anthology Of African American Slave Narratives
In the opening pages of Running a Thousand Miles for Freedom ; or , The
Escape of William and Ellen Craft from Slavery ( 1860 ) , Craft pronounced that in
the American South " there is a greater want of humanity and high principle
amongst ...
Author: William L.. Andrews
Publisher: Civitas Books
ISBN: UOM:39015046902501
Category: Social Science
Page: 642
View: 836
Gathers writings by Mary Prince, Nat Turner, Frederick Douglass, William Wells Brown, Henry Bibb, William and Ellen Craft, and Harriet A. JacobsThe Arizona Quarterly
DANEEN WARDROP Collaboration in Running a Thousand Miles for Freedom :
William's Key and Ellen's Renaming Fratrative Running a Thousand Miles for
Freedom to strengthen the abolitionist movement , encouraging northerners to
aid ...
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ISBN: UCBK:C094112627
Category: Literature
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Are We Not Sisters and Brothers
Three accounts of the lives of famous slaves This unique Leonaur book brings together three remarkable accounts of slavery and escapes to freedom by African women and men in the United States and West Indies during the 19th century.
Author: Ellen Craft
Publisher:
ISBN: 1782823018
Category: Social Science
Page: 352
View: 117
Three accounts of the lives of famous slaves This unique Leonaur book brings together three remarkable accounts of slavery and escapes to freedom by African women and men in the United States and West Indies during the 19th century. The first account, written by William and Ellen Craft, recounts the incredible and epic escape by a husband and wife who, recognising that Mrs. Craft was so pale skinned that she could pass for a person of European origin, devised the innovative plan of posing as a young male planter master and his slave. The second story, that of Bermudan born Mary Prince, is notable because hers was the first personal account written by a female negro slave ever to be published in Britain. The third and final account by Solomon Northup, has now become famous again because his experiences have been turned into a highly regarded motion picture. Northup was born a free man, happily married with children and working and owning property in Saratoga Springs, New York. During a visit to Washington he was drugged, kidnapped and sold into slavery on a Southern plantation which he endured, despite repeated escape attempts, for twelve years before regaining the liberty that had been taken from him. Leonaur editions are newly typeset and are not facsimiles; each title is available in softcover and hardback with dustjacket; our hardbacks are cloth bound and feature gold foil lettering on their spines and fabric head and tail bands.Landers Film Reviews
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ISBN: UOM:39015035575953
Category: Motion pictures
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Multiculturalism and the American Self
In Running a Thousand Miles to Freedom , a slave narrative first published in
1860 in London , William Craft describes his and his wife Ellen Craft ' s escape
from slavery as a crossing of geographical borders effected through a crossing of
...
Author: William Q. Boelhower
Publisher: Universitaetsverlag Winter
ISBN: STANFORD:36105025093555
Category: History
Page: 348
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The articles of this volume, which derive from two symposia held under the auspices of the Erasmus cooperation among seven European universities, address issues of the inter- and intracultural relations of different ethnic groups in America from the colonial period to the present time. In addition to the intercultural contacts between European settlers and immigrants on the one hand and minority groups on the other hand, emphasis is also given to the intercultural relations within white American literature. The common thread in all of these multicultural productions is the formation of an American self. Treatments of encounters between white settlers and Native Americans in the colonial period are set next to analyses of the minority works ranging from the poetry of Phillis Wheatley in the early republic, to questions of gender in slave narratives, to the fictions of Nella Larsen, Alice Walker, Toni Morrison, Gerald Vizenor, and Chicana writers. The implicit, often unintentional, stirrings of multiculturalism are the subject of articles on Henry Adams, Henry James, Thomas Wolfe, and Paul Green. Finally, the volume includes discussions of multicultural stereotypes, which determine the construction of American selfhood, in such motion pictures as Pocahontas, Forrest Gump, and Malcolm X.African American Slave Narratives
-1900 ) AND ELLEN CRAFT ( 1826-1891 ) Running A Thousand Miles For
Freedom Though William and Ellen Craft contributed one of the most thrilling and
compelling narratives of escape from slavery , theirs is the story of a lifetime of ...
Author: Sterling Lecater Bland
Publisher: Greenwood Publishing Group
ISBN: 0313317186
Category: Biography & Autobiography
Page: 1004
View: 719
African American slave narratives of the 19th century recorded the atrocities of the antebellum South and provided a solid foundation for the African American literary tradition. By presenting 16 such narratives in their entirety, this reference conveniently documents this historically significant literary genre. Unlike other anthologies, which often contain excerpts from readily available narratives, this work offers complete versions of largely unavailable texts. To add to the value of this reference for the researcher and general reader alike, each narrative is accompanied by a preface, explanatory notes, and suggestions for further reading. The work begins with an introductory essay that fully contextualizes the slave narrative genre and concludes with a general bibliography.American Heritage
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Author: Illinois Office of Education. ETV/ITV Section
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