They would escape to the North in plain sight. Woo lays out the Crafts' story in her new book: "Master Slave Husband Wife," published by Simon & Schuster (part of CBS' parent company, Paramount ...

In 1848, in the slave state of Georgia, a husband and wife decided to escape. It was 800 miles to Philadelphia in the free state of Pennsylvania, but Ellen and William Craft made a plan to travel ...

“Master Slave Husband Wife,” by Ilyon Woo, relates the daring escape from bondage in Georgia to freedom in the North by an enslaved couple disguised as a wealthy planter and his propert ...

In her new book Master Slave Husband Wife, Ilyon Woo reconstructs the dramatic escape of a resourceful couple who escaped slavery. Ellen and William Craft were considered the legal property of ...

In the strikingly titled “Master Slave Husband Wife,” writer and historian Ilyon Woo recounts the almost-forgotten story of the “self-emancipation” of Georgia slaves William and Ellen ...

In its scope, “Master Slave Husband Wife” offers a sense that there are far more stories left untold than those we have been taught in school. “For every Douglass, Tubman and Craft,” says ...

When “Master Slave Husband Wife” came out last month, Ilyon Woo teamed up with her old friend Imani Perry for her first book event. By Elisabeth Egan “I saw a little school report from back ...

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In "Master Slave Husband Wife: An Epic Journey from Slavery to Freedom" (Simon & Schuster), author Ilyon Woo recounts a remarkable 19th century story of deception, in which a fair-skinned enslaved ...