#William Craft

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As founding family members of the William & Ellen Craft Foundation (WECF), we’re honored that WECF's 1st post here is to announce that tomorrow, Thursday, December 21, we’ll commemorate the 175th anniversary of the historic escape from enslavement by our ancestors, William & Ellen Craft (Left image on announcement), with a daily countdown and tracking of their harrowing five day December 1848 journey from #Macon, GA to freedom in #Philadelphia on Christmas Day. A journey where Ellen, who, as the daughter of an enslaved black woman and their white slaveholder, was able to “present” as white, and famously disguised herself as William’s white male slaveholder (Right image on announcement). She bandaged her jawline to minimize speaking, as well as her right hand to avoid any writing—which she, nor William, had been taught. Please #SpreadTheWord to join us for the next five days of unfolding their dangerous—and ingenious—trek out of bondage (which will include images from The U.S. National Park Service related to their journey, also go to: https://bit.ly/3tmBcdi).  Stay tuned… (posted PST) #WilliamAndEllenCraft, #RunningAThousandMilesForFreedom, #BlackHistory, #AmericanHistory, #History, #WilliamCraft, #EllenCraft, #Enslavement, #UndergroundRailroad, #TheGreatestEscape

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In her early 20s, Craft married an enslaved man, William Craft, a skilled cabinetmaker. "They were afraid to have children in slavery," said Wood, "because their enslaver could reach down into the cradle that they had made for their child and take their child away. And there's nothing they could do in the slave system in order to stop that."

They came up with a bold plan: Ellen would disguise herself as a wealthy White man who was traveling with "his" enslaved person: her husband, William. They would escape to the North in plain sight.

Fascinating article. I hope their story gets spread more widely.

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On arrival, they were helped by men and women abolitionists and Ellen Craft took work as a lodging house proprietor, while her husband William worked as a cabinet-maker.

"Normal Women: 900 Years of Making History" - Philippa Gregory

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ANIMAL

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innocence

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Wallpapers by William Morris

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~ Florence Harrison, "Two Red Roses Across the Moon" from Early Poems of William Morris (1914)

via internet archive

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"what we call here in the professional field-" "A Grenade?"

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Kennet (1883) by William Morris.

Birmingham Museums Trust.

Creative Commons 0 - Public Domain.

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Kelmscott Manor, originally built 1600, home of Victorian designer, artist, writer and social activist William Morris.

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Horror Icons

By Vitaly Budnik

[williamandellencraftfoundation]

The William & Ellen Craft Foundation is very proud of Ilyon Woo for winning the Pulitzer Prize for a Biography with "Master Slave Husband Wife" (Simon & Schuster), telling the story of William & Ellen Craft--and their daring 1848 escape from enslavement--in such a detailed, compelling and moving manner.

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This emerald art nouveau darling is Sabina💚



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happy fathers day

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HE'S HOME

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William Morris and John Henry Dearle

The Bullerswood Carpet

1889, London, England