Ilyon Woo Master Slave Husband Wife: An Epic Journey from Slavery to Freedom-主人 奴隶 丈夫 妻子

1848年，艾伦和威廉·克拉夫特乔装打扮，试图逃离佐治亚州的奴隶制——浅肤色的艾伦伪装成病态的白人绅士、威廉装作他的奴隶，然后乘坐火车和轮船一路向北。本书取材于多种来源，包括克拉夫特夫妇自己的叙述，以重建“相互自我解放的旅程”，同时巧妙地勾勒出一个国家走向内战的背景。

克拉夫特夫妇不可思议的逃脱，以及他们自愿在废奴主义者巡回演讲中讲述这个故事，使他们的事迹引起了轰动，也被本书作者认为，它们应该在美国的国民意识中永远占有一席之地。

书名：Master Slave Husband Wife: An Epic Journey from Slavery to Freedom《主人 奴隶 丈夫 妻子》

作者：Ilyon Woo

简介：The remarkable true story of Ellen and William Craft, who escaped slavery through daring, determination, and disguise, with Ellen passing as a wealthy, disabled White man and William posing as “his” slave.

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.