| LC control no. | n 50019156 |
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| Descriptive conventions | rda |
| Personal name heading | Craft, William |
| See also | Craft, Ellen |
| Associated country | United States England |
| Located | Bryan County (Ga.) |
| Birth date | 1823-09-22 |
| Death date | 1900-01-27 |
| Place of death | Woodville (Greene County, Ga.) |
| Field of activity | Antislavery movements Cabinetwork Education |
| Affiliation | Woodville Cooperative Farm School |
| Profession or occupation | Cabinetmakers Educators |
| Found in | His Running a thousand miles for freedom, 1969. His Running a thousand miles for freedom, 1999: CIP t.p. (William Craft) frwd. (slave from Georgia; escaped in 1848; fled in 1851 to England, where he lived until returning to the U.S. in 1869 to establish Woodville; d. 1900, in Woodville, Ga.) Master slave, husband wife, 2023: page 31, etc. (Born September 22, 1823; died January 27, 1900, age seventy-six; cabinet maker) African American National Biography, accessed December 8, 2014, via Oxford African American Studies Center database: (the married couple Ellen & William Craft escaped from slavery on 21 December 1848; the couple appeared frequently at antislavery rallies; escaped from slave catchers and boarded a steamer for 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; in 1871, the couple bought "Woodville", a plantation in Bryan County, Georgia and opened the Woodville Co-operative Farm School) |
| Associated language | eng |
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