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In this post I will continue to focus on a woman named Ellen Craft. She lived from 1826 - 1891. Aided by their supporters, Ellen and her husband decided to escape to England. They travelled from Portland, Maine to Halifax, Nova Scotia, where they boarded the Cambria, bound for Liverpool, England. They were aided by a group of prominent abolitionists, one of whom arranged for their schooling at the village school in Ockham, Surrey.
Ellen and her husband spent 19 years in England, where she participated in reform organisations such as the London Emancipation Committee, the Women's Suffrage Organisation, and the British and Foreign Freedmen's Society. She turned their home into a hub of Black activism: she invited fellow Black activists to stay and supported other abolitionists.
In 1868, after the American Civil War and passage of constitutional amendments granting emancipation, citizenship, and rights to freedmen, Ellen and her husband returned to the United States. They raised funds from suporters, and in 1870, they bought 1800 acres of land in Georgia, near Savannah, in Bryan County. There they founded the Woodville Co-operative Farm School in 1873, to educate and employ freedmen. However, the school had to close in 1878.
In 1890, Ellen and her husband moved to Charleston, South Carolina.
Ellen died in 1891.
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