The Wildest True Escape Story from Slavery | History Hyenas
Ellen Craft, a light-skinned enslaved woman (quadroon), escaped slavery by disguising herself as a wealthy, ill white Southern man, while her husband William posed as her enslaved servant.takeawayAfter reaching freedom in the North, they fled to England where slavery was outlawed, lived for 20 years, learned to read and write, had five children, and later returned to the US to open a school for freed African-Amertakeaway“They went back to Georgia... they founded these things to help blacks and they wanted to fight against slavery... they reinvested in the hood.”quote














