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In 1848 a young, enslaved couple, Ellen and William Craft, achieved one of the boldest feats of self-emancipation in American history. Posing as master and slave, while sustained by their love as husband and wife, they made their escape together across more than 1,000 miles, riding out in the open on steamboats, carriages, and trains that took them from bondage in Georgia to the free states of the North. Along the way, they dodged slave traders, military officers, and even friends of their enslavers, who might have revealed their true identities. The tale of their adventure soon made them celebrities, drawing thunderous applause as they spoke alongside such great abolitionists as Frederick Douglass. Even then, with the passage of an infamous new Fugitive Slave Act in 1850, they were not out of danger. The Crafts came were forced to flee once again-this time, from the United States. Master Slave Husband Wife recounts their three epic journeys. Don’t miss hearing from author Ilyon Woo and the Peggy Trotter Dammond Preacely, a descendant of the Crafts, about the couple’s monumental and successful bid for freedom, and their legacy.