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June 9, 2014 07:26 pm PDT
Original Link: http://feeds.boingboing.net/~r/boingboing/iBag/~3/NdyjzZr2-V4/an-ingenious-escape-from-slave.html
An ingenious escape from slavery [Futility Closet013]
Georgia slaves Ellen and William Craft made a daring bid for freedom in 1848: Ellen dressed as a white man and, attended by William as her servant, undertook a perilous 1,000-mile journey by carriage, train, and steamship to the free state of Pennsylvania in the North. In this week's episode of the Futility Closet podcast we'll follow the couple's harrowing five-day adventure through the slave-owning South. Read the restOriginal Link: http://feeds.boingboing.net/~r/boingboing/iBag/~3/NdyjzZr2-V4/an-ingenious-escape-from-slave.html
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