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5,000 Miles to Freedom - 9780792278856

Un libro in lingua di Fradin Dennis B. Fradin Judith Bloom edito da Natl Geographic Soc Childrens books, 2006

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This is the dramatic true story of one of the few successful slave escapes from the deep South. Though many slaves escaped from the border states, few successfully survived the much longer trip from the deep South to the North. But few were as clever and William and Ellen Craft. Through courage, daring, and excellent planning, Ellen and William Craft disguised themselves as a white man (Ellen) and his slave (William) and traveled by train, boat, and carriage 1,000 miles to Philadelphia. They made a sensation in Philadelphia among the abolitionists and rapidly became the most famous escaped slaves in the U.S., traveling around giving lectures about their experience as slaves and about their escape. But being public figures had its drawbacks. Their former owners read about them in the newspapers and sent slave hunters after them. Pursued, they moved on to Boston, where the highly anti-slavery town protected them fiercely (to the point of harassing those who came looking for them). But even Boston was too dangerous, so the Crafts eventually moved to England (5,000 miles from home), where, after learning to read and write and hob-nobbing with the elite, they settled down to make a living and raise a family. At the behest of a group of British abolitionists, William traveled twice to Dahomey, where he tried to convince the king to stop exporting slaves. On his first trip, the king gave him several slave boys as a gift. He brought them home and raised them with his own children. After the Civil War, Ellen, William, and some of their children returned to Georgia, where they started a cooperative farm and a school for former slaves and their children, using their incredible intelligence and ingenuity in the service of those they had left behind so many years before. The book is illustrated with period artwork, newspaper clippings, etc., and includes background on slavery and the Civil War.

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