Master Slave Husband Wife : An Epic Journey from Slavery to Freedom

Contents Cover Title Page Map Dedication 1. Overture Revolutions of 1848 2. Macon The Cottage William Ellen The Station 3. Georgia The Crafts Knocked Down Manifest Destiny Macon Bound 4. Savannah House of Strangers Charleston Bound Under Watch The Plan 5. Charleston Two Houses 6. Overland The Wrong Chap Boxed In The Capital Baltimore Baggage Christmas Eve Coda 7. Pennsylvania City of Brotherly Love Purvis Tiny Shoes Friends William Wells Brown 8. New England Singular Escape Cradle of Liberty Everlasting Yea Macon Again The Circuit The Six 9. The United States City upon a Hill Compromise Octopus Powers Revolutionaries Master Slave Men from Macon Webster’s Men The Commissioner’s Wife “To the Rescue!” “Slave Hunters in Boston!!!” The Coolest Man A World Turned Upside Down The United States Hotel The Lion’s Den Disagreeable Duty Husband and Wife North 10. Canada Strangers The Cambria 11. Overseas Man of the World Two Williams Panoramas Soiree Harriet Martineau “Fugitive’s Triumph” The Great Exhibition Freeborn 12. Coda Photographs Acknowledgments A Note on Sources Notes Selected Bibliography Index Image Credits Copyright Guide Cover Start of Content Title Page Map Dedication Acknowledgments Notes Selected Bibliography Index Copyright V VI 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 29 30 31 32 33 34 35 36 37 38 39 40 41 42 43 44 45 46 47 48 49 50 51 52 53 54 55 56 57 58 59 60 61 62 63 64 65 66 67 68 69 70 71 72 73 74 75 76 77 78 79 80 81 82 83 84 85 86 87 88 89 90 91 92 93 94 95 96 97 98 99 100 101 102 103 104 105 106 107 108 109 110 111 112 113 114 115 116 117 118 119 120 121 122 123 124 125 126 127 128 129 130 131 132 133 134 135 136 137 138 139 140 141 142 143 144 145 146 147 148 149 150 151 152 153 154 155 156 157 158 159 160 161 162 163 164 165 166 167 168 169 170 171 172 173 174 175 176 177 178 179 180 181 182 183 184 185 186 187 188 189 190 191 192 193 194 195 196 197 198 199 200 201 202 203 204 205 206 207 208 209 
 
 Master Slave Husband Wife
 An Epic Journey from Slavery to Freedom
 Ilyon Woo
 
 
 
 
 
 ALSO BY ILYON WOO
 The Great Divorce:
 A Nineteenth-Century Mother’s
 Extraordinary Fight Against Her
 Husband, the Shakers, and Her Times
 
 
 
 To Joon and to Kian, Oan, and Nari
 
 
 About the Author
 
 © MICHAEL WILSON
 ILYON WOO is the author of The Great Divorce: A Nineteenth-Century Mother’s Extraordinary Fight Against Her Husband, the Shakers, and Her Times. She received a Whiting Creative Nonfiction Writing Grant for Master Slave Husband Wife. Her writing has appeared in The Boston Globe, The Wall Street Journal, and other publications. She holds a BA in the humanities from Yale College and a PhD in English from Columbia University.
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 OVERTURE
 
 
 
 
 
 REVOLUTIONS OF 1848
 
 In 1848 William and Ellen Craft, an enslaved couple in Georgia, embarked upon a five-thousand-mile journey of mutual self-emancipation across the world. Theirs is a love story that begins in a time of revolution—a revolution unfinished in the American War for Independence, a revolution that endures.
 This story opens in that year of global democratic