Description
An enslaved woman has a light-enough complexion and the physique to “pass” as a white man. She and her enslaved husband, who pretends to be her manservant, escape slavery in Georgia in 1848. They find refuge in the North. Newspapers cover them extensively, and they join abolitionists on the lecture circuit. After the Fugitive Slave Act passes in 1850, they emigrate to England. No, no – this really isn’t fiction! The book won the 2024 Pulitzer Prize in Biography and the author used contemporaneous original sources in her exhaustive documentation of the lives of the couple, Ellen Craft (1826 to 1891) and William Craft (1824 to 1900). Please read the book so you can participate in our structured, facilitated, Zoom discussion. (Note: Please join the meeting at 3 pm if you would like some assistance using the features of Zoom. Otherwise, join us at 3:15 pm for the start of our discussion.)
(See other book discussions: #322, 362, 401)
