Running a Thousand Miles for Freedom

Running a Thousand Miles for Freedom Or The Escape of William and Ellen Craft from Slavery is one of the most compelling of the many slave narratives published before the American Civil War, their book reached wide audiences in Great Britain and the United States. The book was written by Ellen Craft and William Craft who were slaves from Macon, Georgia in the United States. They escaped to the North in December 1848 by traveling openly by train and steamboat, arriving in Philadelphia on Christmas Day.