Running a Thousand Miles for Freedom chronicles the daring escape of William and Ellen Craft which is often known as the most ingenious plot in fugitive slave history.
While Ellen posed as a white male planter William, her husband, posed as her personal servant.
The couple cleverly travelled by train and steamboat, escaped nail-biting detection and arrived in Philadelphia on Christmas Day.
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