One couple's remarkable escape from slavery
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 14 ม.ค. 2023
- In 1848 Ellen Craft, an enslaved woman in Macon, Georgia, feared that her father - who was her White enslaver - would claim any child she bore as his property. And so, she and her husband, also enslaved, embarked on a remarkable ruse: Fleeing the South, she masqueraded as a male White slaveowner accompanied by "his" slave. Correspondent Mark Whitaker talks with Ilyon Woo, author of "Master Slave Husband Wife: An Epic Journey from Slavery to Freedom," and with Peggy Preacely, the couple's great-great-granddaughter.
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My God, the bravery, the tenacity!! This couple needs to celebrated on a global scale!!
Which God, as I hope you are not referncing a God which allowed slavery at one point?
@@GuessWhoAsks I said that emphasizing complete awe in what this couple accomplished. I didn't mean anything else.
@@barriegrubb5682 Cool, as I was afraid you were referencing the Christian God which had allowed chattel slavery. I can appreciate that you were just using the word in another sense which is why I asked. Thank for clearing up my confusion. :)
@@GuessWhoAsks You forget that God also gave man free will. If some men used that free will and freely decided to enslave others, don't blame that on God.
@@watchinit6063 "You forget that God also gave man free will. If some men used that free will and freely decided to enslave others, don't blame that on God."...I appreciate you trying to make a point that man has the ability to choose their own actions, though that is not the problem. Does your god have the ability and will to forbid coveting(lust), stealing or bearing false witness? Does your god forbid slavery, or does your god provide a guideline fow HOW they want you to practice slavery in line with the will of god?
I heard about this story decades ago. It is so amazing how human beings that were treated like animals outsmarted their enslavers brilliantly. Imagine the stories that were lost or not spoken of. This is why it is important to remember and learn historical FACTS. This was a fight for freedom, autonomy, and HUMAN rights.
This is an example of what (as much as many would disagree) Kanye meant by “ slavery was a choice “ . You could either stay and endure and possibly die in bondage or as a breeder … or escape ..
@@ryanamari2233 Many of the enslaved stayed because of family. Many enslavers lied to their slaves about freeing them if they bred a certain amount of children. Many enslavers lied to them about freeing them upon their deaths. Many enslaver's children simply chose to not abide by their parent's wishes. Many were too elderly or too young to escape. And many just committed suicide to escape slavery or killed their children so they would never live to experience slavery. And others fit enough tried to escape but were not successful. Slavery was never a choice. It was a circumstance that people were conditioned to accept from birth and violence was used to maintain it. People had reasons for enduring the brutality that made sense to them at that moment. If they had a real choice, they would never have chosen slavery.
@@syren8373 Read, Rebel on the Plantation. If you are able to get the entire book, The Underground Railroad, by William Still, it will give you GREATER insight on the thinking of the enslaved people, why they ran away, and the different methods they used. I got it when Ebony, was selling it, many years ago. Rebel on the Plantation, was written by, John Hope Franklin.
This is the history that they want to suppress so bad.
@@Imissyoulou
Thank you for the suggestions; they are greatly appreciated.
This story is truly worthy of a Hollywood movie screenplay!
We listening to it and seeing the film playing in my mind.
The preproduction of a movie was initiated months ago.
Hollywood is evil
@@Hibbs4Prez Well I sure hope it comes to us in a movie 🥰or screenplay ..
Someone like Rebecca Hall would be perfect to play the wife but I'm not sure that the ages would match up.
Need to be a movie or full documentary..please..incredible real life story
Who should portray them?
Jennifer Beals and Jessie Williams
@@madamelogicbombdropperblac7799 Jennifer is too old. She is almost 60. Jesse is biracial and looks biracial.
Exactly 💯.
There is a movie. Running a Thousand Miles to Freedom. You can watch it on TH-cam.
Imagine politicians are fighting to keep this history from being taught in schools.
@Chris C Do politicians actually actively attempt to keep certain things out of school books??? I’m sincerely asking, because I did not know this. Well, now that I think of it, the govt stopped prayer in the schools, and that likely required a vote, so, they probably prevent other info from being taught in schools.
@@Psalm_27.4 State sponsored prayer is not allowed. I’m sure that there was probably a lot of praying going on-when there were math tests.
They have never taught this anyway. Parents should teach this at home.
@@Psalm_27.4 Yes, our government has prevented these stories from being put in history books. Black History, Native History, Asian History, Hispanic History, are not allowed in school Text books.
@@Psalm_27.4 DeSantis administration rejects proposed AP African American Studies class in Florida high schools. I read this CNN article yesterday.
I’m looking forward to reading this book. What an incredible American couple! They were not seen as American but they were the best of us - courageous, intelligent, creative and resourceful.
Me too-I just ordered the book from Amazon
It'll probably be banned by Desantis
I have a copy. 96 pages. Good read.
So happy to hear this amazing story. Should have been told a long time ago.
@SummerBreeze
WOW!!!
Beautiful history. I’m so glad they made it to freedom.
And someday, hopefully soon, all persons will be free and equal……
Did they really though. Aren't we still enslaved by our masters
Beautiful history of the cruelty slavery from the white skin people! What?
@Robert Marley there are degrees of freedom and they became much more free when they escaped, which is a great thing and should be recognized.
Well said yet today we are continue to fight for justice spiritually politically financially 🥰🙏😇😍
My deepest, most sincere reverence to this enslaved, self freed couple,.. and to the author who took her time to bring this story to the surface. 🙏🏿🙏🏿🙏🏿🙏🏿🙏🏿🙏🏿🙏🏿
It's such an incredible story of an escape couple from a horrific American slavery past. Seeing their descendants to become successful people is so gratifying.
ALL of the successful Black Lives in America 🇺🇸 are descendants of either brutal chattel slavey in the Americas & European nations 🌎 or of colonialism if they immigrated from a nation colonized by enslavers on the Continent.
The only African nation who was not colonized were the Ethiopians.
The difference with this couple is they were blessed and cunning enough to escape the shackles of slavery.
My family on both sides has been in America 🇺🇸 since the 1700's according to research from national archives.
We the descendants of slaves have generations of college graduates, military veterans, world travelers, doctors, teachers, lawyers, engineers, social workers, business men, nurses etc.
Imagine if Black Lives were not subjected to slavery or colonization, the greatness would be immeasurable.
Remarkable...I'm from the Caribbean isle of Trinidad and Tobago..i must say this story is truly full of bravery! 👊🏽🇹🇹🙏💞
Amazing 🤩 They fought their way to freedom and continued their fight for justice for themselves and their families then and now!
We injuns
They tout this slavery B's to mess with your head
Not sure they are fighting so much now.
This is such a remarkable story. Already ordered the book. Can't wait to read it.
You can’t conceal classiness. Look at the quality of that woman’s penmanship, and not even a year of being literate!
We have so much to learn from this history. Glad it's being talked about.
What an amazing story!! Their courage and strength is incredible! ❤
It's all a lie
@@artaxerxes2363
You wish!!! Ha ha ha ha ha ha ha
Thank you for this story! It will help me teach my class about this story. Our 5th grade reading anthology, Wonders, features a reader’s theater script about the Craft’s.
In 2020 I got the Kindle books by Doug Peterson THE VANISHING WOMAN, it is the Ellen Craft story, and THE DISSAPEARING MAN is the Henry Box Brown story, and THE TUBMAN TRAIN. They are beautiful encouraging stories of real people and what they can accomplish. This video is so neat getting to see one of Ellen and William Craft's Great-great granddaughters.
Wow, ITV in England did a documentary on the Crafts about ten years ago. It was part of a Black British Heritage series.
5:15 ‘Running a Thousand Miles for Freedom,’ Ellen and William Craft’s book. What a fantastic story of hiding in plain sight.
Brilliant!! What a story! So glad they had free children❤️
It’s sad n unforgivable how Slavery was never brought to justice.!!
In every country.
@@MR-lq7ss What's your point.
@@SalikCollins Slavery has occurred in every country - still does. In some countries, it's called "trafficking".
@@MR-lq7ss But it wasn't as brutal as chattel slavery. Even though it has stopped racism still exist. People think racism has stopped but it hasn't, it just evolved and it's in the system.
@SalikCollins You don't think that what's happening to children as s*x trafficking, sacrifices, and what's going on with the Uyghurs (to name a few) isn't brutal enough? Smh.
What an incredible story! This should be made into a movie!
wouldn't work. Not enough sex involved
No
This is a story that should be taught in history classes! Beautiful story of Love & Strength! This touched my soul so deeply, Thank you for sharing the Krafts story. God Bless. ❤
Thank you. Another piece of my/our history that wasn’t known. Thank God they traveled with daring, determination, stubbornness, sacrifice and survival helped others ( me and my family included) get to where we are today.
Truly incredible story. Love gave them the strength and determination to find freedom together in spite of all odds.
Wow! What a story... I can't believe how scared they must have been on multiple occasions. God bless
Thank you for presenting this amazing story of two slaves escaping their plight and gaining freedom in the most daring way known at that time. Incredible.
They were not slaves, they were enslaved people.
Henry 'Box' Brown's escape was also pretty daring.
The TV series" Underground" which aired on WGN in 2016-2017 was literally based off the Crafts story. How does CBS and the reporter not know or discuss this??!! John Legend produced the show. People were devastated when that show stopped airing because the show and the acting was brillant. You can watch the series on TH-cam.
Change, thank you. I didn't know that.
Great job, CBS Sunday Morning, for another introduction to an important, relevant topic worth delving into…..
I knew about the couple, but not about the help they received from *actual* allies. Happy tears.
We should all have their courage and love.
We have all been deprived of the stories. The many fascinating stories.
How wonderful it would have been if we all had the honor to learn true Black history in schools in the US.; not the limited stuff fiction is made of. There are so many of these stories. There is a similar story in my family.
William Ellison South Carolina
Oh how sad it is for a person that doesn't know it's own history 😅😅😅😅
What a wonderful story! My Gosh what incredible strength Blk people have, for everything they have been through! ❤
Just like the 1.25 million whyte slaves that the north African's enslaved. Just like the $300,000 whyte Union soldiers that died to end blk slavery
Wow!!! I was bowled over by their remarkable bravery.
What a story, so amazing really moved by their ability to reach Liverpool and get to read and write excellent. History is all there if we truly search Yep they deserved to be recognised with all the other Greats. Marvellous!!!
Thanks Ms Woo for your research.👌🏽♥️💡😆
This is an incredible story, should be a movie and history books!
This was not that long ago. My heart for all that got away.
I agree ppl are always saying slavery was a long time ago but the truth is that 1900 wasn't that long ago take away twenty to thirty years your back in slavery times in the mid 1800's.
It was a long time ago we literally have s@x slaves in the United States as we speak and you're complaining about slavery that occurred 150 years ago?
@@allisonmaldonado3705 technically 1975 was a long time ago, what is your point? I guess we don't have time for sex slaves and correcting the wrongs from the past at the same time WE HAVE TO PICK ONE?
@@allisonmaldonado3705 and after slavery ended all was well correct? we all joined hands sang kumbaya. There were no oppressive laws, no Jim Crow, no propaganda, no Apartheid/Segregation
@@allisonmaldonado3705 some ppl would also say 1938 was a long time ago get over it? hmm never heard that said before I wonder why
I can't wait to read this book! I have a great-great grandmother who's roots were in the Middle Passage. I believe she hid ber past to protect her future children she was an amazing woman, and I have enjoyed researching her life after the Civil War.
I love when people from other cultures research to see what Blacks in this country have gone through. Disgusting that we ridicule the actions of Any other nation. Great work by the author and CBS
EXACTLY... The nerve of this country to admonish other nations when
crimes against humanity were being committed in their own backyard.
@@jessiemalexander Not surprising when you think about it. Don't know if @diabetes is Black, but this disease and a few others are prevalent among various ethnicities.
@@beckiejani7782 what are you talking about? You should stop sticking your nose in conversations that don’t involve you. How did you equate race to anything I said. Why would anyone call themselves diabetes period?
She’s getting paid. She could have done a story on people that looked like her.
It wouldn’t get as much traction.🤷♀️
@@jessiemalexander The gentleman who commented spoke to racial matters and you asked a legitimate question about his handle. TH-cam is a public site, not a personal conversation; I politely mentioned the connection between diabetes and ethnicity. Whether folks like it or not, factors like race, gender, age etc are involved in various health issues. My family is mixed - just a few diabetics on the white side - the Asian Indian side is LOADED. Many died, had amputations, etc from it. I never knew my paternal grandmother due to it. I did check out diabetes 1.5 and yes, he is Black. Have a nice day!
Great story.. love to learn from Sunday Morning. My friends and I call the show our church. Feel good and educational stories ❤
What a life these people had to endure . Glad they got out and made their own family. What a journey of escape.
There's a film coming out this year or next called "Hope of Escape" with a similar true story. I hope more true stories like this are seen so we always remember how important it is to keep oppressors in check, and out of business, government and other positions of influence.
This was a beautiful American story! Movie worthy!
Beautiful story! The pursuit of freedom. The ability to learn, read , write and to have a child(ren) as free individuals.
Thank you for sharing this story of the history of our history and hopefully, the history of all indentured and enslaved people. Freedom is a human right.
MANY enslaved people, sought education as soon as they were free.
"If the lions don't have a historian, their history will be told by the hunter". Who is telling the story.
Such an inspiring story. This couple was so brave.
This is a great telling of history, I am glad this family has a well documented story of their family's journey to freedom! It is Amazing!
I grew up with this story. Yes, I am from Macon, Georgia.
I'm from Macon as well. I grew up in Crystal Lake, do you think the Tubman Museum would have this story? Until now I have never heard of this story. Macon has so much. history.
Fantastic and beautiful, truly inspiring, you can't find people like this today.
I have always wondered if I could suffer the way they have throughout the centuries. I just admire the courage and the efforts to achieve betterment. My hat off to them.
Wow what an amazing and inspiring story! Thank you for this! 🙏🏽
The Craft flight to freedom is one of my FAVORITE historical journeys of courage under fire. As a diversity professional, I have used the Craft story in my training portfolio for at least 20 years. Happy that it's now a newly publlished book.
The stories that keep coming out of slaves just horrible awful demeaning acts owners and society would allow back then and this is just stories that come out imagine stories that just never we will never be aware of wow
My God is good.
Our people are so ... 🙏🏾
What an incredibly story!
Thank God for the American people who were against slavery. Amen
Indeed. And it just goes to show that people ALWAYS knew it was wrong. People these days like to justify these sins of the past by claiming that people then didn't know any better. They did. But the financial incentives were just too good/tempting to allow their conscience to bother them, and they had to make up all kinds of reasons to justify themselves (like Blacks being not fully human).
@@vbrown6445 Yes, they KNEW it was wrong. Thomas Jefferson said that it was a "hideous blot" and a "moral depravity”. George Washington called slavery "repugnant". James Madison said it was "evil". Yet, they all enslaved HUMAN BEINGS and stole their lives to enrich themselves.
This is real history that all schools should teach all children.
I learned about this couple in my teens. She was badass woman. Their story is beautiful to me.
Oh I have to put on my list of books to read. What a compelling story.
Between masking, code switching, and the never-ending fight simply to be treated with the respect due any person, I both grieve and am in awe of what Black Americans go through on a daily basis. I think racists like DeSantis try to continue to fight against telling these stories because of greed and cowardice. He doesn't have half the strength and courage they display, and if more white Americans knew the truth, politicians and institutions couldn't perpetuate the policies and stereotypes designed to disempower them.
There must be payback for the decendents of those who profited and those who still profit from this evil trade.
Not payback, but justice. Revenge is dehumanising for all involved. Justice is humanising.
Slavery occurred in most countries Arabs had blk slaves for 13th centuries North Africans enslaved 1.25 whyte Europeans. Do they deserve reparations?
When does the film come out .....I'm waiting ..!!..
I can also see this as a mini serie. Can take more time to explore this amazing story.
This happened many times. Pale relatives would disguise themselves to buy or free their family.
This is American history that should be taught.
Unless you are in school in Florida
They should also teach that African leaders kidnapped their own people and sold them into slavery that's how American slavery started. They also need to teach world history and how they're 1.25 million whyte slaves that were enslaved by the north Africans and I also need to teach how Arabs had blk slaves for 13th centuries way longer than the United States did
@@jjj1951 It truly is sad that some believe their children are so fragile that they are incapable of hearing the truth in age-appropriate ways. It's not like they won't ever discover these facts. They can't hide THE TRUTH forever. The internet exists.
DeSantis says this has no educational value.
Or on a suggested reading list so those who want an education can read it. School is just a daycare/gang recruitment center at best anymore.
I’ve know of this story decades ago , it was brilliant.
Thanks for sharing this. Learn about this story in college . And after this I'm going to buy the book.
Oh wow.. she has her great great grandfather’s eyes! What a beautiful legacy!
I can't believe they are handling the books and other documents without gloves.
This is such an incredible story - and thanks to Ilyon Woo, we now know of it. She is a curator of the Craft story, much like descendant, Peggy Trotter, who looks so much like her third-great-grandfather, William. Oh, my goodness, this has me in tears.
Incredible story! Thank you to everyone who brought the Crafts’ story to our time.
Imagine how many more stories just like this!?
I remember learning about them a long time ago … I don’t remember if there was a short film about their journey or there were secondary characters in something but .. I know about their legacy
Those who want to be educated mostly educate themselves. The rest wait to be spoonfed some version of the truth.
What a wonderful gift this couple left to their descendants, and to us with their daring journey of ❤️ love.
This would make an incredible movie
Omg such an awesome story. Thanks to all those who work so hard to preserve our history!!! ❤❤❤❤😘😘😘😘😘👏🏽👏🏽👏🏽👏🏽👏🏽👏🏽
What an amazing story! This should be made into a movie.
That was horrible to know a master has a daughter, and enslaved her! And her sister was just as disgusting. Slavery was just a horrible demeaning thing to do to your fellow human. To know that the people enslaving them, and not saving their own children. I cannot imagine a mother's pain to lose her child. I love my child so much can not even think about it.
Plantation owners sold off their own flesh and blood regularly, after raping the enslaved women solely to create more "inventory."
It was COMMON back then. Most, but not all, enslavers felt that way about their own children.
Unfortunately, that's not the only thing they did to their offspring. Some even sent them to "breeding farms". I'll leave it at that. It's also one of the reasons miscegenation laws started getting passed. Enslavers and the children that they acknowledged would not want relations with their own relations at some point in the future.
Can’t even imagine the thought of waking up and be told, your child is sold. Don’t cry, go pick cotton.
It was the norm.
Announcements about a movie for this story was reported many months ago. There is already a direct ing team (husband and wife) and the two leads have been cast (one of whom is No an Adepo).
There are so many great stories that need to be told about people dealing with and at times overcoming slavery, that it annoys me when folks keep whining that they don't want to see " no more slavery movies". I am happy that THIS story is going to make it to the screen.
Remember, this is a story that can not be told in some schools in this country!!!!
Thank you for your inspirational interview and story
Please kindly continue posting your much appreciated videos
Such a brilliant couple. They were questioned the whole way North... and they _never_ slipped up. Plus, they must have had to save some coins (hopefully, taken from the masters, as a lifetime "salary" for their slavery and torture...) I _really hope_ that she stole some of her older sisters (HER master) fanciest clothes for the trip. And that they still had some of that salary when they came to Boston and then to Canada. Sheer brilliance, by a woman who could not read or write and a couple who was woefully uneducated. One lesson: _Don't judge a persons intelligence because of where they work, how much $$$ they have, where they live, etc._ Thanks for being amazing, Craft family!! 💐
The poem at the close was lovely,thank you for reading it .
This is the kind of story Hollywood needs to turn into a movie instead so much of the stuff they make. I’m still perplexed that they lied about history &!turned brutal slavers into action heroes. WTH!?
MY GREAT GRAND MOM WAS BORN 69 YEARS LATER YET THEY TELL YOU TO FORGET😒
What a hair-raising journey!!! Wooow, definitely agree that we need more of this story in a feature-length film or docu!
Never heard this story before now. Thank you, CBS Sunday Morning, for great informative reporting!
"Slavery wasn't that bad", some say.
But if slavery wasn't bad, why did so many escape,?
If you want to know why so many tried to escape, read The Underground Railroad, by William Still.
Slavery occurred in most countries in some way many countries had slavery for thousands of years. Arabs had blk slaves for 13th centuries way longer than the United States did so in other countries slavery was worse than it was in the United States.
@@allisonmaldonado3705 And your point is?
@@allisonmaldonado3705 chattel slavery was the WORST.
Or commit suicide and smother their children before they could grow up. If slavery wasn't so bad, how many would volunteer for it now???
I'd like to see them make a movie from this story!
Thank you for this story.
Incredible, and bravery what a wonderful story.
What a fantastic movie this film would make.
Heard this story before, and the courage and ingenuity this couple displayed has always fascinated and awed me.
Thanks for sharing 🙏🏾
Incredible story and family!!! Blessings!!!
Thank you so much for your research, I have to get this book!
Thx for sharing this amazing story 👍🏾
What an amazing story. She was so lucky to be white-looking enough able to get away with escape and having a nice big family❤❤❤❤
The same couldn't be said about her mother who was not only raped by her enslaver, but had to endure the pain of watching her little girl taken away from her.
Thank you. This helped so much with my project
What a remarkable story. 🙏🏽👏🏽
Desantis says this is of no value.
This was a wonderful story.