1848

Ellen Craft — light-skinned enough to pass as white — disguised herself as an ailing white planter; William Craft traveled as her enslaved manservant. They traveled 1,000 miles by train, steamer, and carriage from Macon, Georgia to Philadelphia in four days. Their story became an international anti-slavery sensation. After the Fugitive Slave Act (1850) endangered them in Boston, they fled to England, lecturing to abolitionist audiences.

Ellen Craft disguised herself as an ailing white planter; William traveled as her enslaved manservant. They journeyed 1,000 miles from Macon, Georgia to Philadelphia in four days. Their story became an international anti-slavery sensation. After the 1850 Fugitive Slave Act endangered them in Boston, they fled to England, lecturing to abolitionist audiences.

Frederick Douglass was the only prominent man to speak in favor of women's suffrage at the Seneca Falls Convention, helping pass the Declaration of Sentiments' demand for the vote by a narrow margin. Douglass argued in The North Star that 'the power to choose rulers and make laws, was the right by which all others could be protected' — linking racial and gender justice as inseparable.

Frederick Douglass was the only prominent man to speak in favor of women's suffrage at the Seneca Falls Convention, helping pass the Declaration of Sentiments' demand for the vote. In The North Star he argued that the right to choose rulers and make laws was the right by which all others could be protected.