Reading Running a Thousand Miles for Freedom | Alexandria
Read Running a Thousand Miles for Freedom by William Craft. Masquerading as a white male slave owner, Ellen Craft daringly escorted her husband William to freedom while he posed as her enslaved manservant - a dangerous role reversal that exposed how arbitrary racial categories truly were. Their audacious escape revealed how "whiteness" itself was a performance, challenging the entire foundation of the antebellum South's racial hierarchy.