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Biography

Crossing the Color Line to Freedom

    Activism

    Family

    Immigration & Migration

    Slavery

    Slavery & Abolition, 1800-1860

Historic map of Philadelphia
The slightest mistake would clip asunder the last brittle thread of hope by which we were suspended, and let us down for ever into the dark and horrible pit of misery and degradation from which we were straining every nerve to escape.

William and Ellen Craft, "Running A Thousand Miles for Freedom; or, the Escape of William and Ellen Craft from Slavery", 1860

Photograph of Louis Manigault, Jr. in a field
Present to Past

Land as Legacy

    Family

Photograph of African American man and horse
Biography

An African American Venturer

    Family

Illustration of White House
Biography

Enslaved at the White House

    Slavery