Ellen and William Craft's daring escape and campaigning is honoured at their former London home.
The couple reached Philadelphia, where they were greeted by abolitionists who carried them on to Massachusetts.
The husband and wife fled across the Atlantic in December that year, settling first in Ockham, Surrey, before making their home at 26 Cambridge Grove, a mid-Victorian House in Hammersmith, west London. Ellen was also involved in the campaign to gain voting rights for women and supported organisations which helped other enslaved people who had won their freedom.
After the US Civil War ended in 1865 with the defeat of the southern slave states and the legal emancipation of all enslaved people, Ellen and William Craft returned to Boston with three of their children.
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