Get rid of the slavery of Allen and William Craft.

Most escaped slaves fled to free places in the dead of night and were often chased by barking hounds. Some fugitives, such as Henry "Box" Brown who mailed himself in wooden boxes in the north, designed clever tricks or smuggled ships and trucks. Allen and William Craft, a couple from Georgia, are among the most ingenious escapees. They took the first-class train and had dinner with a steamboat captain. 1848 fled to Philadelphia and stayed in the best hotel during their free time. Allen, a quadrilateral with very fair skin, disguised as a young white cotton planter and traveled with his slaves (William). It was William who came up with a hidden plan, but in the end it was Allen who convincingly concealed her race, gender and social status during their four-day trip. Despite enjoying luxury, the journey is full of narrow escape and absent-minded moments, which may lead to their discovery and capture. Courage, quick thinking, luck and "our heavenly father" support them. Handicraft says they ran a thousand miles for freedom. This book was written by them at 1860, which recorded the process of prison break.

Allen and William live in Macon, Georgia, and belong to different owners. William was auctioned at the age of 16 to help his master pay his debts. He owns the property of the local bank teller. A skilled carpenter, William, continued to work in his apprentice's shop, and his new boss took most of his salary. A few minutes before being sold, William witnessed his frightened and tearful 14-year-old sister being sold. His parents and brothers suffered the same fate, scattered all over the south.

As a child, Allen, the descendant of her first master and one of his half-blood slaves, is often mistaken for a member of his white family. 1837, the mistress of the plantation was very angry and gave Ellen, who was 1 1, as a wedding gift to her daughter Macon, who was then a maid. Allen and William got married, but after such a cruel family separation, they desperately wanted children, fearing that they would be taken away. "The thought," William later wrote about his wife's pain, "filled her soul with fear."

Thinking about various escape plans, William knew that slave owners could take their slaves to any state, slaves or freedom, and suddenly thought of an idea, that is, Allen, who was congenial to himself, pretended to be the master, a rich young white man, because women and footmen were not used to traveling together. At first Ellen panicked at the idea, but gradually she was persuaded. Because they are "the most popular slaves", the couple got a few days' holiday pass from their master with little difficulty during Christmas, which gave them a few days to disappear without causing an alarm. Besides, as a carpenter, William may keep some income or do odd jobs for others and be allowed to keep some money.

Before1848 65438+February 2 1 left, William cut Allen's hair to the neck. She put her right arm in the sling, which can prevent hotel staff and others from expecting "him" to sign the registration office or other documents, thus increasing the fraud. Georgia law forbids teaching slaves to read and write, so neither Allen nor William can. Ellen improved the ineffective disguise and asked William to put a bandage on his face to cover his smooth skin, which gave her reason to limit her conversation with strangers. She is wearing a pair of trousers sewn by herself. Then she puts on a pair of green glasses and a top hat. They knelt down to pray and took "desperate freedom to run."

At Macon Railway Station, Allen bought a ticket to Savannah, 200 miles away. When William was sitting in the "black car", he found the owner of a joinery shop on the platform. After asking the conductor, the man began to peek through the window. William turned his face out of the window and retreated to his seat, preparing for the worst. Allen and William arrived in Philadelphia and soon got help and accommodation from the underground abolitionist network. They had a reading class on the first day they came to this city. Three weeks later, they moved to Boston, where William continued to do joinery and Allen became a tailor. Two years later, 1850, slave hunters came to Boston with the intention of sending them back to Georgia. These handicrafts fled to England again, and finally gave birth to five children in England this time. Twenty years later, they returned to the United States and established a school for newly liberated blacks in Georgia in the 1970s.