5000 Miles to Freedom: Ellen and William Craft's Flight from Slavery
- ISBN-10
- 0792278852
- ISBN-13
- 9780792278856
- Category
- Juvenile Nonfiction
- Pages
- 96
- Language
- English
- Published
- 2006
- Publisher
- National Geographic Books
- Authors
- Judith Bloom Fradin, Dennis B. Fradin
Description
Relates the lives of Ellen and William Craft, who risked their lives to flee their lives as slaves in the South, journey endless miles away from their home, and work to end slavery when they reached their safe destination in the North.
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