NMLP P-035944 · Point of issue · minted 2026-07-09

Running a Thousand Miles for Freedom; or, the Escape of William and Ellen Craft from Slavery

William Craft and Ellen Craft · William Tweedie (London) · 1860

William and Ellen Craft had fled to England after the 1850 Fugitive Slave Act made them unsafe even in the free states, so the narrative was written and first published there rather than in the United States

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New Mexico Literacy Project — Point of issue NMLP P-035944 for "Running a Thousand Miles for Freedom; or, the Escape of William and Ellen Craft from Slavery" by William Craft and Ellen Craft (https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/id/point/p-035944, CC BY 4.0, dataset DOI 10.5281/zenodo.21184548).