Ilyon Woo Master Slave Husband Wife

About the author:

Ilyon Woo is a Pulitzer Prize–winning, New York Times bestselling author whose writing has appeared in the Boston Globe, the Wall Street Journal, Time Magazine, and the New York Times. Author of The Great Divorce: A Nineteenth-Century Mother’s Extraordinary Fight Against Her Husband, the Shakers, and Her Times, she has received support for her research from the National Endowment for the Humanities and the American Antiquarian Society, among other institutions. Woo travels the country to speak at bookstores, museums, schools, and book festivals, and she has been featured on such programs as NPR’s Morning Edition, NPR’s All Things Considered, and CBS Sunday Morning.

About the book:

Master Slave Husband Wife: An Epic Journey from Slavery to Freedom was one of the New York Times’s “10 Best Books of 2023” and People Magazine’s “Top Ten Books of 2023,” and was also named a best book of the year by The New Yorker, Time, NPR, Smithsonian Magazine, and others. Master Slave Husband Wife is the true story of William and Ellen Craft, a couple who escaped slavery through daring, determination, and disguise, with Ellen passing as a wealthy, disabled white man and William posing as “his” slave.

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