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Podcast: I Tell Stories
Episode: Black American History: William and Ellen Craft
Description: Send a textSupport The Show 👇🏻https://www.buzzsprout.com/2035680/supportEmbark on the harrowing yet uplifting saga of Ellen and William Craft, an enslaved couple whose love and ingenuity led them to script one of the most audacious escapes in American history. Our narrative weaves through the year of 1848, as we recount the Crafts' extraordinary flight from bondage, with Ellen's fair complexion allowing her to masquerade as a white slave owner and William, her devoted husband, posing as her slave. Their story, filled with suspenseful close calls and the ever-looming specter of rec...