Ellen and William Craft
FUGITIVE SLAVES AND SLAVERY ABOLITIONISTS, FROM MACON, GEORGIA
Ellen Craft; Ellen & William Craft; William and Ellen Craft; Running a Thousand Miles for Freedom
Ellen Craft (1826–1891) and William Craft (September 25, 1824 – January 29, 1900) were American fugitives who were born and enslaved in Macon, Georgia. They escaped to the North in December 1848 by traveling by train and steamboat, arriving in Philadelphia on Christmas Day.