A great escape: Rebecca Hardy on a daring bid for freedom, and Friends met on the way
‘This daring ploy involved gender, class and race disguise.’
A year ago this month, two black abolitionists were honoured with one of the few blue plaques for people of colour in London. The site of Twenty-Six, Cambridge Grove, a redbrick mid-Victorian house in Hammersmith, was where the freedom fighters Ellen and William Craft settled and raised their family, using it as a base for their abolition and social justice work.
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