In Plain Sight

In 1849, abolitionist and attorney Wendell Phillips wrote: "We
should look in vain through the most trying times of our
revolutionary history for an incident of courage and noble daring
to equal that of the escape of William and Ellen Craft; and future
historians and poets would tell this story as one of the most
thrilling in the nation's annals, and millions would read it, with
admiration of the hero and heroine of the story." Unfortunately,
almost 170 years later, William and Ellen Craft aren't well known
anymore. Today, we have the story of this couple's incredible
escape from slavery, the abolitionist pastor Theodore Parker who
married the Crafts, and their founding of the Woodville
Co-operative Farm School. Read the Craft's book: Running a Thousand
Miles for Freedom http://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/585 Barbara
McCaskill wrote about William and Ellen Craft in Love, Liberation,
and Escaping SlaveryWilliam and Ellen Craft in Cultural Memory
http://www.ugapress.org/index.php/books/loveliberationescaping_slavery
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