Clinton, Georgia (c 1826 -1891) age~65 yrs

Ellen Craft and William Craft (1824 -1900) were an enslaved couple. They escaped to the North in December 1848. They traveled openly by train and steamboat. They arrived in Philadelphia on Christmas Day. Ellen passed as a white male planter and William as her personal servant. Their remarkable escape from slavery is narrated in ‘Running a Thousand Miles for Freedom’. William noted that being separated from her own mother at an early age had strengthened Ellen’s resolve. She had seen so many other children separated from their parents in this cruel manner. The mere thought of her becoming a mother haunted her. She dreaded her child enduring a miserable existence under the oppressive system of American slavery.