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The Remarkable True Story of the Couple Who Posed as Master and Slave to Escape Bondage
Time via Yahoo News· 1 year agoA portrait of Ellen Craft in the book 'Running a Thousand Miles for Freedom.' Credit - Public Domain...
Author of daring escape tale and Shirley Chisholm biographer at Provincetown Book festival
Cape Cod Times via Yahoo News· 9 months agoIt’s 1848, and a young enslaved married couple, Ellen and William Craft, make an imaginative escape....
Column: These books steeped in Macon history make great Christmas gifts
Macon Telegraph via Yahoo News· 6 months agoThe holidays are always a special time in the midstate, but this year the festivities are enhanced...
Korean American author Ilyon Woo wins Pulitzer Prize for biography
NextShark via Yahoo News· 2 months ago[Source] Korean American author Ilyon Woo won the 2024 Pulitzer Prize for biography for her book...
20 books to read featuring diverse authors, the Black experience and Black history
Lansing State Journal via Yahoo News· 1 year agoThanks to the experts at Capital Area District Library, here is a curated list of titles to...
PEOPLE Picks Our Favorite Books by and About Powerful Women
People via Yahoo News· 4 months agoCelebrate Women's History Month with these staff picks in historical fiction, memoir and fiction by...
Chicago author Jonathan Eig wins Pulitzer Prize for his groundbreaking biography of Martin Luther...
Chicago Tribune via Yahoo News· 2 months agoCHICAGO — Chicago historian Jonathan Eig won a 2024 Pulitzer Prize for biography for “King: A Life,”...
They posed as master and slave: The dramatic escape story behind a pathbreaking book
LA Times via Yahoo News· 1 year agoIn 'Master Slave Husband Wife,' Ilyon Woo follows a wife and husband who escaped by posing as a white man and his caretaker, then fought for abolition.