{"product_id":"running-a-thousand-miles-for-william-craft-9780807123201","title":"Running a Thousand Miles for Freedom: The Escape of William and Ellen Craft from Slavery","description":"\u003cp\u003eHusband and wife William and Ellen Craft's break from slavery in 1848 was perhaps the most extraordinary in American history. Numerous newspaper reports in the United States and abroad told of how the two -- fair-skinned Ellen disguised as a white slave master and William posing as her servant -- negotiated heart-pounding brushes with discovery while fleeing Macon, Georgia, for Philadelphia and eventually Boston. No account, though, conveyed the ingenuity, daring, good fortune, and love that characterized their flight for freedom better than the couple's own version, published in 1860, a remarkable authorial accomplishment only twelve years beyond illiteracy. Now their stirring first-person narrative and Richard Blackett's excellent interpretive pieces are brought together in one volume to tell the complete story of the Crafts.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e William Craft\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 080712320X\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780807123201\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e LSU Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 01\/01\/1999\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 120\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.38lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 8.90h x 5.98w x 0.27d","brand":"William Craft","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":43980568035583,"sku":"9780807123201","price":16.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_98c3b7ce-4cbe-4b67-a300-c49f26006d64.jpg?v=1683250643","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/running-a-thousand-miles-for-william-craft-9780807123201","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}