Master Slave Husband Wife: An Epic Journey from Slavery to Freedom by Woo, Ilyon
Master Slave Husband Wife: An Epic Journey from Slavery to Freedom by Woo, Ilyon
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Winner of the 2024 Pulitzer Prize in Biography "A rich narrative of the Crafts, an enslaved couple who escaped from Georgia in 1848, with light-skinned Ellen disguised as a disabled white gentleman and William as her manservant, exploiting assumptions about race, class, and disability to hide in public on their journey to the North, where they became famous abolitionists while evading bounty hunters." --The Pulitzer Prizes Named one of the best books of the year by The New York Times, The New Yorker, Time, NPR, Smithsonian Magazine, and Oprah Daily In 1848, a year of international democratic revolt, a young, enslaved couple, Ellen and William Craft, achieved one of the boldest feats of self-emancipation in American history. Posing as master and slave, while sustained by their love as husband and wife, they made their escape together across more than 1,000 miles, riding out in the open on steamboats, carriages, and trains that took them from bondage in Georgia to the free states of the North. Along the way, they dodged slave traders, military officers, and even friends of their enslavers, who might have revealed their true identities. The tale of their adventure soon made them celebrities, and generated headlines around the country. Americans could not get enough of this charismatic young couple, who traveled another 1,000 miles criss-crossing New England, drawing thunderous applause as they spoke alongside some of the greatest abolitionist luminaries of the day--among them Frederick Douglass and William Wells Brown. But even then, they were not out of danger. With the passage of an infamous new Fugitive Slave Act in 1850, all Americans became accountable for returning refugees like the Crafts to slavery. Then yet another adventure began, as slave hunters came up from Georgia, forcing the Crafts to flee once again--this time from the United States, their lives and thousands more on the line and the stakes never higher. With three epic journeys compressed into one monumental bid for freedom, Master Slave Husband Wife is an American love story--one that would challenge the nation's core precepts of life, liberty, and justice for all--one that challenges us even now.
Author: Ilyon Woo
Publisher: 37 Ink
Published: 01/17/2023
Pages: 416
Binding Type: Hardcover
Weight: 1.25lbs
Size: 8.90h x 6.40w x 1.50d
ISBN: 9781501191053
Award: Kirkus Prize - Finalist
Review Citation(s):
Library Journal Prepub Alert 08/01/2022 pg. 18
Publishers Weekly 09/19/2022
Kirkus Reviews 11/15/2022
Library Journal 12/01/2022 pg. 116
Booklist 12/01/2022 pg. 103
BookPage 02/01/2023
Author: Ilyon Woo
Publisher: 37 Ink
Published: 01/17/2023
Pages: 416
Binding Type: Hardcover
Weight: 1.25lbs
Size: 8.90h x 6.40w x 1.50d
ISBN: 9781501191053
Award: Kirkus Prize - Finalist
Review Citation(s):
Library Journal Prepub Alert 08/01/2022 pg. 18
Publishers Weekly 09/19/2022
Kirkus Reviews 11/15/2022
Library Journal 12/01/2022 pg. 116
Booklist 12/01/2022 pg. 103
BookPage 02/01/2023
About the Author
Ilyon Woo is the New York Times bestselling author of Master Slave Husband Wife: An Epic Journey from Slavery to Freedom and The Great Divorce: A Nineteenth-Century Mother's Extraordinary Fight Against Her Husband, the Shakers, and Her Times. Her writing has appeared in The Boston Globe, The Wall Street Journal, Time, and The New York Times, and she has received support for her research from the Whiting Foundation, and National Endowment for the Humanities and the American Antiquarian Society, among other institutions. She holds a BA in the Humanities from Yale College and a PhD in English from Columbia University.
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