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“Webster was the only Senator who had his own drinking room inside the Capitol, and he carried among his possessions an exquisitely painted miniature of a woman’s glowing breasts—a self-portrait by the painter Sarah Goodridge, who presented the gift when Webster was newly widowed, and between his first and second wives.”
― Ilyon Woo, Master Slave Husband Wife: An Epic Journey from Slavery to Freedom

“What Ellen may not have known, however, was that her father’s hand was also at play in what would be a curse as well as a gift. On July 1, 1845, after he had made Eliza the official owner of her home, James Smith took further steps to formalize the wedding present he had made of Ellen years earlier. Declaring his love for his daughter, he made her the legal owner of Ellen and a young man named Spencer, binding them together in a contract that would protect Eliza’s property against her husband’s debts.”
― Ilyon Woo, Master Slave Husband Wife: An Epic Journey from Slavery to Freedom

“With such crammed quarters, steamers required passengers to be social. Ellen would have to eat and sleep beside unknown men, in rooms off-limits to women.”
― Ilyon Woo, Master Slave Husband Wife: An Epic Journey from Slavery to Freedom

“I have seen slaves tortured in every conceivable manner. I have seen them hunted down and torn by bloodhounds. I have seen them shamefully beaten, and branded with hot irons. I have seen them hunted, and even burned alive at the stake, frequently for offenses that would be applauded if committed by white persons for similar purposes.”
― Ilyon Woo, Master Slave Husband Wife: An Epic Journey from Slavery to Freedom

“Meanwhile, the destruction of an enslaved family, such as William’s, might be represented by a number—if recorded at all.”
― Ilyon Woo, Master Slave Husband Wife: An Epic Journey from Slavery to Freedom

“More is known of the woman who hated Ellen than the mother who loved her.”
― Ilyon Woo, Master Slave Husband Wife: An Epic Journey from Slavery to Freedom

“This book tells the story of the Craftsâ€� revolt during the combustive years of 1848 to 1852, when the trajectories of the couple and the nation collide most dramatically. Though propelled by narrative, this work is not fictionalized. Every description, quotation, and line of dialogue comes from historic sources, beginning with the Craftsâ€� own 1860 account, Running a Thousand Miles for Freedom. The story is also informed by historical materials beyond the scope of the Craftsâ€� presentation, all detailed at the end of this book.”
― Ilyon Woo, Master Slave Husband Wife: An Epic Journey from Slavery to Freedom

“They ran for each other, with each other, and as they did, they pushed not only themselves and each other, but also the nation—and the world—to reach for better. In this sense, the lack of a definitive happy ending to their story represents not so much a gap or absence, as, potentially, a space or an opening in the story of America, whose reckonings with the past have the power to transform present and future. This space is ours to enter.”
― Ilyon Woo, Master Slave Husband Wife: An Epic Journey from Slavery to Freedom

“the northern part of the city, where a women’s college stood upon a hill, its windows dark. Claimed to be the first in the world to grant a degree to a woman, the future Wesleyan College had its roots in Ellen’s father’s work, too, in a female seminary he had helped found. At the school’s first baccalaureate address, its president—a preacher well known to Ellen’s enslaving family—was exultant as he exhorted, “Woman can do more! It is her province, her right, her duty.â€� “Come forth and live!â€� he urged. “Let your understandings swell out to the fullness of their native dimensions, and walk abroad majestic in thought.”
― Ilyon Woo, Master Slave Husband Wife: An Epic Journey from Slavery to Freedom

“This exposure is particularly important for those sections of the story that the Crafts chose not to detail, material comprising more than two-thirds of this book. Their narrative, as they state in the preface to their narrative, is “not a full historyâ€� of their lives, but “merely an account of our escape.”
― Ilyon Woo, Master Slave Husband Wife: An Epic Journey from Slavery to Freedom

“I have also chosen to write this book as narrative nonfiction, as opposed to a purely academic work, with the goal of evoking, as viscerally as possible, the texture of life in the Craftsâ€� day and age—the places and times through which they moved and lived—while also rendering the epic scope of their enterprise and activism, and finally, as tribute to the couple’s own genre-defiant presentation.”
― Ilyon Woo, Master Slave Husband Wife: An Epic Journey from Slavery to Freedom

“[S]lavery had been in place in the New World since 1502. By 1641, Governor Winthrop, a devout Puritan, helped the colony produce a code of laws making slavery legal that lasted 140 years. Though the Puritans sought religious freedom, it was just for themselves. They saw themselves as God's special people and their Bible as sanctioning bondage.”
― Ilyon Woo, Master Slave Husband Wife: An Epic Journey from Slavery to Freedom

“Her mother’s name was Maria. Only several years older than James Smith’s first daughter by his legal wife, Maria was said to have been bought by Smith when she was a child. Noticed for her youthful appearance, even in her later years, Maria would be recalled as a “gentle Christian woman, of light complexionâ€� by firsthand observers. Little other testimony survives to tell of the details of her life. Maria, too, may have been fathered by a White man. She was described as mulatto and half White; Ellen, as quadroon, or a person of one-quarter African ancestry.”
― Ilyon Woo, Master Slave Husband Wife: An Epic Journey from Slavery to Freedom

“Ellen’s ultimate test of mastery was also a moment of surrender, or an act of radical faith, where her trust in the moment, and an invisible grace, empowered her transcendence.”
― Ilyon Woo, Master Slave Husband Wife: An Epic Journey from Slavery to Freedom

“Enslaved women tasked with caring for children were often made to sleep on the floor of their chargesâ€� rooms, ladiesâ€� maids close by their mistresses. Children training for housework, too, often slept near their enslavers.”
― Ilyon Woo, Master Slave Husband Wife: An Epic Journey from Slavery to Freedom

“In the face of all uncertainty, however, Brown set a model of what being a public American fugitive could be. Legally, he was as vulnerable as the Crafts, but he had refused to hide, going so far as to send a copy of his narrative to the man who had once enslaved him. Brown felt strongly within himself that he “owed a duty to the cause of humanity.â€� There were three million still in bondage, including loved ones, who shared his scars.”
― Ilyon Woo, Master Slave Husband Wife: An Epic Journey from Slavery to Freedom

“she and William had surely planned for the possibility that one or both of them would be detected, captured, or lost—Ellen, if someone saw through her disguise; William, if he were kidnapped or recognized. But here they were, so near to Philadelphia that pickpockets, more than slave catchers, were foremost in their minds. They had likely not imagined that their greatest crisis would come on the last leg of their ride, after Ellen was no longer required to prove her mastery.”
― Ilyon Woo, Master Slave Husband Wife: An Epic Journey from Slavery to Freedom

“the push of westward settlement, and its unending demand for slaves.”
― Ilyon Woo, Master Slave Husband Wife: An Epic Journey from Slavery to Freedom

“A final note on language: I have endeavored to follow the guidelines recommended by P. Gabrielle Foreman and other senior scholars in “Writing About Slavery,â€� using the terms “enslaved peopleâ€� and “enslaverâ€� whenever possible, with the purposeful exception of the title and other situations where the point of using terms such as master or mistress, slave or planter, was precisely to contest the ideologies they represent.”
― Ilyon Woo, Master Slave Husband Wife: An Epic Journey from Slavery to Freedom

“Ellen was born when her mother was eighteen years old. The paternity of a mixed-race child was a matter often avoided or denied in households like the Smithsâ€�. As a contemporary, Mary Boykin Chesnut expressed famously, “the mulattoes one sees in every family exactly resemble the White children—and every lady tells you who is the father of all the mulatto children in everybody’s household, but those in her own she seems to think drop from the clouds.â€� The paternity of Maria’s child, however, was so unmistakable that it was often presumed, and the lady of the house made sure that both Maria and Ellen suffered for it.”
― Ilyon Woo, Master Slave Husband Wife: An Epic Journey from Slavery to Freedom

“Years later, Ellen’s descendants would recall hearing that she did not like to talk about the days of her enslavement. What losses she and William suffered were theirs to mourn and own.”
― Ilyon Woo, Master Slave Husband Wife: An Epic Journey from Slavery to Freedom

“Travel between railway cars was hazardous, even for experienced conductors, so much so that some railroads put up pictures of gravestones as a warning.”
― Ilyon Woo, Master Slave Husband Wife: An Epic Journey from Slavery to Freedom

“For in this era, the railroad was the biggest slaver in town.”
― Ilyon Woo, Master Slave Husband Wife: An Epic Journey from Slavery to Freedom

“The absence of a happy ending may partly explain why the Crafts are not better known.”
― Ilyon Woo, Master Slave Husband Wife: An Epic Journey from Slavery to Freedom

“The Crafts would never mention any children born in slavery. In later years, however, at least four White activists or their descendants, each of whom had a unique connection to the Crafts, contended separately that Ellen had given birth to a baby who died while she was forced to perform her duties as a slave. Published years apart, with no apparent connection among them, the accounts vary widely but suggest in common that the loss of a child compelled the Crafts to escape slavery.”
― Ilyon Woo, Master Slave Husband Wife: An Epic Journey from Slavery to Freedom

“In time, the half sisters grew into their roles, and Ellen was so attuned to Eliza’s needs and wishes that she became Eliza’s favorite. Yet under one roof, these two daughters of James Smith stood worlds apart. One sister answered to the title of Mistress; the other was forced to respond to calls of “nigger.”
― Ilyon Woo, Master Slave Husband Wife: An Epic Journey from Slavery to Freedom

“Collins had, in his own words, “been accustomed to slavery from his earliest days,â€� and, from “long experience,â€� considered himself something of an expert on the matter. In fact, his brother Charles, with whom he frequently did business, was later reputed to have been a slave trader. Robert would secure his own legacy as a slaver through authorship, penning an Essay on the Treatment and Management of Slaves—a kind of slave owner’s manual, which details his thinking on the subject.”
― Ilyon Woo, Master Slave Husband Wife: An Epic Journey from Slavery to Freedom

“There is not a nation on the earth guilty of practices more shocking and bloody than are the people of the United States, at this very hour.”
― Ilyon Woo, Master Slave Husband Wife: An Epic Journey from Slavery to Freedom

“Yet, whatever her feelings or her rights, in the end, Eliza Collins did not insist on the action that was legally hers to take—and which her father, if not her husband, might have pursued on her behalf. She would not force the return of the half sister she enslaved.”
― Ilyon Woo, Master Slave Husband Wife: An Epic Journey from Slavery to Freedom

“Whether or not they had children while enslaved, this much is clear: the Crafts had their future children in mind when they resolved to be free. They were haunted—â€� above all,â€� as they would later say—by “the fact that another man had the power to tear from our cradle the newborn babe and sell it in the shambles like a brute, then scourge us if we dared to lift a finger to save it from such a fate.”
― Ilyon Woo, Master Slave Husband Wife: An Epic Journey from Slavery to Freedom