Two Tickets to Freedom

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Two Tickets to Freedom
Perseverance
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Persevering Through Slavery
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Persevering Through Slavery

• William and Ellen Craft were two married slaves
  in the 1800s.
• For many years, they had put up with slavery and
  strongly desired to escape.

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Persevering Through Slavery

• Other slaves had made attempts to escapes, but
  most ended up caught.
• When an escaping slave is caught, he is beaten
  until he is half-dead to teach him a lesson and
  scare other slaves.
• William and Ellen Craft waited for the opportune
  moment.

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Persevering Through Slavery

• When William and Ellen Craft had saved up enough
  money, gathered all the necessary resources and
  planned out the whole escape, then they made
  their move.
• Persevering through the hard times of slavery
  made them better prepared to escape.

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Trials In Boston
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Trials in Boston

• When William and Ellen Craft finally reached
  Boston, they believed they were safe.
• But the Fugitive Slave Law was passed and
  everything changed.

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Trials in Boston

• With the law now working against the Crafts and
  hundreds of other escaped slaves in Boston, they
  were no longer safe.
• Slave hunters came to Boston in search of the
  Crafts.

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Trials in Boston

• Thanks to the newly created Vigilance Committee,
  the Crafts had safe houses they could find refuge
  in when slave hunters came looking for them.
• Due to their perseverance, the slave hunters gave
  up and went back to Georgia.

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England
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England

• Friends of William and Ellen Craft helped get
  them onto a ship that was destined for England

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England

• On the way to England, Ellen became terribly ill.
  It was feared that she would not last the voyage.

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England

• In the end, William and Ellen Craft made it to
  England and Ellen made a full recovery.

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The End