Category: <span>Crafts, William & Ellen</span>

January 12, 1849 William Wells Brown writes to Garrison, telling of the escape of the Crafts, Ellen, 22, William, 24 years of age.  “They are now hid away, within 22…

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February 9, 1849 A letter to Garrison, from T. Bicknell, Kingston, Feb 8th, tells of an Anti-Slavery meeting in the Town  Hall.  W. W. Brown, and the Crafts, and Jonathan…

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February 16, 1849 A note about Anti-Slavery meetings in New Bedford, two successive evenings.  W.W. Brown introduced the Crafts.  During the presentations by the two they were questioned by the…

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April 6, 1849 “The meeting at the Tremont Temple, on Sunday evening last, to extend to William and Ellen Crafts, the interesting fugitives from Georgia,  a public welcome, was one…

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February 28, 1851 A letter from Francis Bishop, dated Dec 28, 1850, in Liverpool, gives assurance that the Crafts have arrived safely on board the Cambria…..”they are now beyond the…

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September 26, 1851 From the London Morning Advertiser, comes news that the Crafts have been received as pupils in the Ockham Schools, which were established by Lady Byron.  William is…

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February 23, 1855 Craft writes to Garrison, from London.  “I was pleased to see that it required military force to return poor Burns into slavery.  I think the law would…

1855 Burns, Anthony Crafts, William & Ellen Fugitive Slave Laws

August 4, 1865 Here there is a letter from Major General James Wilson, in which he indicates that Maria Smith, the mother of Ellen Craft, is now living with colored…

1865 Crafts, William & Ellen