Ellen Craft the Fugitive Slave

Sale 2105 - Lot 37

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Ellen Craft, the Fugitive Slave. Engraved portrait. 8 1/2 x 5 3/4 inches; paper evenly toned; mounted on a piece of stiff archival paper. Np, [Possibly England, circa 1850]

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Ellen Craft (1826-1897) and her husband William were slaves on a Georgia plantation. In 1848 they decided to escape to freedom. Ellen was a very light-skinned woman, her husband William, quite dark. She dressed in men's clothing, wearing dark glasses and a cloak and, posing as master and slave, they made their way North to Philadelphia where William Wells Brown met them and escorted them to Boston.