Ilyon Woo
Author
Language
English
Appears on these lists
Dedham's Black History Month - Adult
Dedham's Goodreads Choice Awards 2023
NPR: Books We Love 2023
STO: Critics' Choice
Dedham's Goodreads Choice Awards 2023
NPR: Books We Love 2023
STO: Critics' Choice
Description
In December 1848, a young enslaved couple named Ellen and William Craft traveled openly by rail, coach and steamship from Macon, Georgia, to Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. Ellen, who passed for white, disguised herself as a wealthy disabled man, with William as "his" slave. Woo follows their journey north, and in joining the abolitionist lecture circuit. When the new Fugitive Slave Law in 1850 put them at risk, they fled from the United States. Their...