The Daring Escape of Ellen Craft
- ISBN-10
- 0876147872
- ISBN-13
- 9780876147870
- Category
- Juvenile Fiction
- Pages
- 48
- Language
- English
- Published
- 2002
- Publisher
- First Avenue Editions
- Author
- Cathy Moore
Description
Tells of the daring escape of a slave couple in 1848, with the woman, Ellen Croft, posing as a white man, and her husband posing as the man's slave.
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