{"product_id":"disguised-in-daylight-benjamin-harmon-9780232736113","title":"Disguised in Daylight: The True Story of Ellen and William Craft's 1,000-Mile Escape from Slavery-and the Love That Defied a Nation","description":"\u003cp\u003eOne couple. One thousand miles. Four days to outrun a nation built on chains.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eDecember 21, 1848, Macon, Georgia. In a cramped attic above a cabinet shop, Ellen Craft, twenty-four, light-skinned, illiterate, and enslaved, sews a gentleman's coat by candlelight. Her husband William, twenty-two, a skilled cabinetmaker, forges passes and builds a mahogany traveling case with a false bottom. By dawn, Ellen is Mr. William Johnson, a deaf, one-armed planter with green spectacles and a white sling. William is his valet. Their destination: Philadelphia. Their weapon: love.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThey board trains, steamers, and ferries under the noses of slave-catchers and bounty hunters.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cul\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eMacon to Savannah: Central of Georgia Railway, 4:00 a.m.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eSavannah to Charleston: Steamer Gen. Clinch. The purser eyes Ellen's sling.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eCharleston to Richmond: 480 miles of rail. A slave trader at breakfast.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eRichmond to Washington: Potomac ferry iced over.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eWashington to Philadelphia: Final 180 miles. Christmas morning, 1848, 4:17 a.m. First free breath at Mother Bethel AME.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ul\u003e\u003cp\u003eEvery whistle is a heartbeat. Every mile, a miracle.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eBoston, 1849-1850. Tremont Temple: 2,000 weep as Ellen speaks, unable to read. The Liberator front page: Never was a tale more thrilling. Fugitive Slave Act, 1850. Georgia deputies storm Boston. The Crafts flee in a coffin aboard the Cambria, surviving an Atlantic storm.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eLondon, 1851-1868. Lady Byron's townhouse: Ellen learns to read and write in six months. Craft \u0026amp; Co.: William imports slave-free goods, 20,000 pounds profit. Anti-slavery tours: 30,000 copies of Running a Thousand Miles for Freedom sold. Civil War: 100,000 pounds sent to Union camps, Ellen's letters in the Lincoln Papers. Five free-born children: Hope (1849), Charles (1852), Brougham (1854), William Garrison (1854), Alfred (1859).\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eGeorgia, 1868-1900. Woodville Cooperative Farm: 1,800 acres, their former master's land, 15,000 dollars cash. Woodville School: 500 freedchildren by 1869. KKK arson, 1871 and 1872: school burned twice. Ellen's reply: We plant again. 1874: stone schoolhouse rises, unburnable. 1,000 graduates by 1880. Ellen dies 1897, pneumonia, age 71. William follows 1900, heart failure, age 76.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eSpanning seven decades, three continents, and two Reconstruction arsons, Disguised in Daylight is resurrection. Primary sources: Ellen's primer, Liberator pages, Freedmen's Bureau reports, Cambria manifest listing one coffin, cargo. Maps and images: 1848 rail route, Boston safe houses, Woodville ruins (1874), Ellen's 1851 daguerreotype. Modern pilgrimage: 2024 Christmas Eve Amtrak journey retracing every mile, led by great-great-granddaughter Dr. Ruth Hope Hill.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eLove outran the chains. Ellen Craft's final letter, December 1, 1900.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003ePerfect for fans of The Underground Railroad, Twelve Years a Slave, Master Slave Husband Wife. Includes timeline (1824-1900), cast, 12 public-domain images, hyperlinked endnotes, 3 annotated maps. Lexile 1080L. Ideal for AP U.S. History, African American Studies, college seminars.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Benjamin Harmon\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 0232736111\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780232736113\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Benjamin Harmon\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 11\/11\/2025\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 148\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.46lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.32d","brand":"Benjamin Harmon","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":48487479836927,"sku":"9780232736113","price":16.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_e85d5c9c-2850-437f-96ed-d8d4bbd1bff5.jpg?v=1778060684","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/disguised-in-daylight-benjamin-harmon-9780232736113","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}