Ilyon Woo
Auteur van Master Slave Husband Wife: An Epic Journey from Slavery to Freedom
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Columbia University (PhD|English) - Beroepen
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The bulk of the narrative is not taken up by the actual flight, but rather what happens afterwards in a historical perspective of the abolitionist movement, the Fugitive Slave Act of 1850, the American Civil War and the Emancipation Proclamation.
Reaching the North (namely Pennsylvania in this case and then Boston) was not a guarantee of freedom. The Crafts ultimately had to go all the way to England to be out of the reach of enslavers.
Reading this account by Ilyon Woo has prompted me to track down the primary source of this slave narrative by the actual subjects: Running a Thousand Miles for Freedom by William and Ellen Craft.… (meer)