LoLT: Hudson River Rail Excursions & Two New Books
Strong Sense of Place | Travel Through Books
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In 1848, an enslaved couple in Georgia decided to escape together. Ellen could pass for white so she disguised herself as a white man with injuries. She put on tinted glasses and an extra tall silk hat. And her husband William, he posed as her slave. They had to travel more than a thousand miles in trains, carriages, and steamboats.
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