William and Ellen Craft and the Fugitive Slave Act — October (?) 1850 newspaper History Geek and sticker sheet with 3

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He was killed at the Battle of Wilson's Creek

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William and Ellen Craft and the Fugitive Slave Act — October (?) 1850 newspaper History Geek and sticker sheet with 3Framed piece of an October (?) 1850 newspaper reporting on the departure of William and Ellen Craft, whose escape from enslavement in the South was ingenious and daring. After Frederick Douglass and Harriet Tubman, the Crafts were some of the most well known individuals who escaped slavery. The Crafts fled the South to escape enslavement and ultimately fled the United States due to the Fugitive Slave Act. The sailed to Halifax and then on to England.