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Patreon.com slash Southern Mysteries. William and Ellen Kraft escaped slavery in Macon, Georgia by traveling to Philadelphia in 1848.

Ellen, the light-skinned daughter of her mixed-race mother,

and their enslaver, posed as a young white male planter,

while William posed as her slave.

Their daring escape made international headlines and the crafts became two of the most famous

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