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Running a thousand miles for freedom : the escape of William and Ellen Craft from slavery /
Running a Thousand Miles for Freedom details the escape of Ellen and William Craft from slavery in Georgia in the United States. Well publicized at the time, the married couple became celebrities in the abolitionist struggle. Their daring and risky plan meant passing the light-skinned Ellen off as a...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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[Auckland, N.Z.] :
Floating Press,
©2009.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
| Sumario: | Running a Thousand Miles for Freedom details the escape of Ellen and William Craft from slavery in Georgia in the United States. Well publicized at the time, the married couple became celebrities in the abolitionist struggle. Their daring and risky plan meant passing the light-skinned Ellen off as a white male traveling with 'his' slave, William, as no woman would have traveled alone with a slave at the time. Running a Thousand Miles for Freedom gives a unique historical opportunity to witness a first hand account of notions of race, gender and class as they stood in a nineteent. |
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| Notas: | Archived by the National Library of New Zealand. Title from PDF title page (viewed on Sept. 13, 2010). Hypertext links contained in the archived instances of this title are non-functional. |
| Descripción Física: | 1 online resource (1 electronic document (121 pages)) |
| ISBN: | 9781775415329 1775415325 9781775569336 1775569330 |