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Image of an engraving of William Craft. He is depicted wearing a suit. He faces forward.William and Ellen Craft were slaves from Macon, Georgia who gained celebrity after a daring, novel, and very public escape in December 1848. The daughter of an African American woman and her white master, Ellen looked white and was able to dress as a southern slaveholder in trousers, top hat, and short hair to avoid detection by slave-catchers. Her darker-skinned husband, William, accompanied her by masquerading as her slave valet.
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