Craft, Ellen Teen fiction. (Personal Name)

Running a thousand miles for freedom, 1969: t.p. (Ellen Craft)

African American National Biography, accessed December 8, 2014, via Oxford African American Studies Center database: (Craft, Ellen; abolitionist, slave, educator; born 1826 in Clinton, Georgia, United States; escaped from slavery on 21 December 1848, together with her husband; the couple appeared frequently at antislavery rallies; escaped from slave catchers and boarded a steamer for Liverpool, England; studied writing, grammar, and scriptures at Ockham School; moved to London to open a boardinghouse and to organize an import-export business; their home became a center of abolitionist activity; active in the Women's Suffrage Association and the British and Foreign Freed-men's Aid Society; moved to South Carolina and opened an industrial school at "Hickory Hill"; in 1871, the couple bought "Woodville", a plantation in Bryan County, and opened the Woodville Co-operative Farm School; one of the most celebrated African-American women of the nineteenth century; died 1891 in Charleston, South Carolina, United States)