| LC control no. | n 50019161 |
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| Descriptive conventions | rda |
| Personal name heading | Craft, Ellen |
| See also | Craft, William |
| Associated country | United States |
| Located | Bryan County (Ga.) Liverpool (England) London (England) |
| Birth date | 1826 |
| Death date | 1891 |
| Place of birth | Clinton (Ga.) |
| Place of death | Charleston (S.C.) |
| Field of activity | Antislavery movements Education |
| Affiliation | British and Foreign Freed-men's Aid Society Women's Suffrage Association Woodville Cooperative Farm School |
| Profession or occupation | Educators |
| Found in | 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, Georgia 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) |
| Associated language | eng |
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