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Welcome to the History Extra podcast, fascinating historical conversations from the makers of BBC History Magazine.

On the 20th of December 1848, Ellen Craft placed a top hat on her head, slipped her arm into a sling and perched dark green glasses on her nose. Once her disguise was complete,

Ellen and her husband William embarked on an almighty journey. The couple were enslaved and they had

assumed fake identities, Ellen as a white slave master and William as his manservant, in order to make a bold

bid for freedom. But their journey to find that freedom was more than a thousand miles long,

and fraught with danger. I spoke to Ili on Wu, author of a Pulitzer Prize-winning biography of the

crafts, to understand how they managed to make it

undetected. Thank you so much for joining me to talk about your book, Master, Slave, Husband,

Wife, which tells the frankly remarkable story of Ellen and William Craft. Before we launch into

the story in more detail, I wonder if you could give us a sense of what's to come.

Well, we start off at 4 a.m. in Macon, Georgia. We have this enslaved couple, Ellen and William Craft,

and they are preparing to go on an extraordinary bid for freedom. It is a journey as master and slave when they were actually husband and

wife. And it is Ellen who plays the role of the master. And so what she does is she disguises

herself as a rich, white, disabled, and slaver, while her husband will pose as her slave.

And in this disguise, in this performance, they cross over a thousand miles through multiple

states to the free state of Philadelphia. That's their goal. And that is the beginning of their

story. Take us back to the very beginning of the story and

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