Author Ilyon Woo, who has spent the last seven years combing through archives from Georgia to Massachusetts, showed "Sunday Morning" an illustration of Ellen Craft, an engraving based on a ...

On the morning of Dec. 20, 1848, William and Ellen Craft began their roughly 1,000-mile journey to freedom. The enslaved couple had planned an elaborate escape from Macon, Georgia, one that hinged ...

It was a remarkable story: Ellen and William Craft, both enslaved in Macon, Ga., in the 1830s and 1840s, took on a dangerous disguise in order to escape bondage. Throughout their treacherous ...

Ellen Craft's light skin allowed her to pose as her husband's enslaver when the two made their daring escape—in broad daylight—from Georgia to freedom in 1848. Ellen Craft, who was born into ...

Ilyon Woo, author of "Master Slave, Husband Wife," discussed why the story of William and Ellen Craft is compelling. This lesson focuses on William and Ellen Craft's 1848 escape from enslavement ...

A few days before Christmas in 1848, an enslaved woman named Ellen Craft donned a stovepipe hat in Macon, Ga. The hat completed a daring costume that Craft used to disguise herself as a white man ...

Ellen Craft crossed the boundaries of race, class, and gender to escape, with her husband, from slavery and fight for the abolition movement. Her moving story is told through music by Barbara ...

More than 175 years ago, the theater was home to the Planter’s Hotel, which the protagonists of the book, Ellen and William Craft, visited briefly as they escaped slavery in Georgia.