The incredible true story of a couple that escaped slavery in the South and eventually made their way to England and beyond.

 

1848. Posing as master and slave, husband and wife Ellen and William Craft made their escape together across more than 1,000 miles, riding steamboats, carriages, and trains that took them from bondage in Georgia to the free states of the North. Dodging slave traders, military officers, and even friends of their enslavers, they lived to tell of an adventure that made international news. Audiences could not get enough of this charismatic young couple, who drew thunderous applause as they spoke alongside some of the greatest abolitionists of the day.

 

But even then, they remained in 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 the Crafts fled to England to embark upon a new life.