Her Half of History
131 episodes - English - Latest episode: 5 days ago - ★★★★★ - 48 ratingsWhy don't women's clothes have more pockets? Who are the female writers and artists my education forgot to include? How does a woman go about seizing control of her government? What was it like to be a female slave and how did the lucky ones escape? When did women get to put their own name on their credit cards? Is the life of a female spy as glamorous as Hollywood has led me to believe?
In short, what were the women doing all that time? I explore these and other questions in this thematic approach to women's history.
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9.9 A Wife by Any Other Naming Convention
March 09, 2023 06:00 - 24 minutesThe majority of women in western countries change their surnames when they get married, but for most of human history that would have been a totally foreign concept. In this episode, I explore the naming conventions of women in ancient Greece, Rome, and China, none of whom took their husband's names at marriage. Then I move on to why the practice got started in Europe, and how feminists in France, Germany, England, and the USA fought back. I also explore how Mistress became Mrs and then Miss ...
9.8 The Mormon Polygamous Wife
March 02, 2023 06:00 - 30 minutesFrom the 21st century it is hard to grasp just how big an issue polygamy was in 19th century America. From this distance, slavery was the big moral issue. But at the time, slavery and polygamy were linked. The very first Republican party platform, written in 1856, declared their prime objective: “it is both the right and the imperative duty of Congress to prohibit in the Territories those twin relics of barbarism—polygamy and slavery.” This episode explores how Mormons began polygamy, how it ...
9.7 The African-American Bride
February 23, 2023 06:00 - 28 minutesIn August 1619, a Dutch man-of-war came to Virginia shores with about twenty Africans. The Virginia colony was starved for labor. The sailors were starved for food, and so it began. By 1850, the US census reported over 3.6 million black and mulatto people. In all that time and among all those people, there were technically very few brides. Because technically speaking, there was no such thing as a slave marriage. There were free blacks and they had brides, but only 11% of that 3.6 million we...
9.6 The Solemnization of Matrimony (from the Book of Common Prayer)
February 16, 2023 06:00 - 13 minutesInstead of telling you a story about what we can gather from historical documents, I am just going to actually read you a historical document. If that’s not your jam, give it a break and come back for the next regular episode on the African-American bride. In 1549, Thomas Cranmer, archbishop of Canterbury, authorized the first Book of Common Prayer for use in the fairly recently formed Church of England. It included a section called “The Forme of Solemnizacion of Matrimonie.” Cranmer is gene...
9.5 To Be Your Lawfully Wedded Wife
February 09, 2023 06:00 - 21 minutesThere are as many different wedding ceremonies in world history as there are cultures, religions, and possibly brides. Technically, a couple may not really need a wedding ceremony. And yet, no one sends out invitations so everyone can come watch them sign some legal documents. There is a thrill to pretending that wedded life begins when someone says "I now pronounce you husband and wife" even if we all know that legally speaking it began with a signature a little earlier. The wedding ceremon...
9.4 What Did the Bride Wear?
February 02, 2023 06:00 - 25 minutesThe most noticeable thing about a modern wedding is often the bride's dress. And; yet in history, the bride's dress is rarely described. Nevertheless, here's a history of what the bride wore, from the six braids and veil of a Roman bride, to the silver and white ornateness of an early modern royal bride, to the service uniform of a bride in the World Wars, and right up to the gorgeous white fantasies so popular today. Visit the website (herhalfofhistory.com) for sources, transcripts, and pict...
9.3 Have You the Ring?
January 26, 2023 06:00 - 21 minutesRings have been associated with marriage since Roman times, but they didn't necessarily look like the modern ones. This episode tracks the history of the ring from the Romans, through the middle Ages (with a brief diversion to JRR Tolkien), by way of the Anglicans and the Puritans, and direct to a huge 20th century advertising success that led us to the now more-or-less obligatory diamond ring on so many married women's fingers. Visit the website (herhalfofhistory.com) for sources, transcript...
9.2 How Big Is Your Dowry? (rebroadcast)
January 19, 2023 06:00 - 21 minutesIf you are a Jane Austen fan, you will know that being beautiful, witty, good natured, and accomplished is good, but having a dowry is better. Austen's impoverished heroines always get their man in the end, the sad truth is, it didn't work for Austen herself. She had no dowry. And she never married. So what is this dowry thing? And why, as Mr. Bennett said, should a father have to bribe worthless young men to marry his daughters? Is it not incredibly insulting to a girl to think that the pun...
9.1 Will You Marry Me? (and other proposals)
January 12, 2023 06:00 - 24 minutesIf you are a member of modern Western society, then you likely have a definite idea of the traditional marriage proposal, even if you yourself have chosen to ignore portions of it. But the traditional proposal is not all that old. Several of its elements are very recent. One is even a deliberate invention of the bridal industry, and many a historic couple would have been surprised or possibly horrified at the whole idea. In this episode, I explore the marriage proposal as it existed in ancien...
Two Queens and Your Christmas Tree
December 15, 2022 06:00 - 19 minutesThe Christmas tree began as a German tradition. And it might still be just a charming local custom, if not for two English queens who elevated it to a global phenomenon. This episode will tell you about Queen Charlotte, Queen Victoria, and their Christmas trees.See the website (herhalfofhistory.com) for a transcript, pictures, and sources.Support the show on Patreon (https://www.patreon.com/user?u=83998235). Visit the website (herhalfofhistory.com) for sources, transcripts, and pictures.Suppo...
8.12 Ethel Rosenberg: Supposedly a Spy
November 10, 2022 06:00 - 27 minutesEthel Rosenberg was executed by electric chair for sending the secrets of the atomic bomb to the Soviet Union. America felt justified in view of the impending nuclear holocaust. But that holocaust has not yet happened, and documents and confessions have been declassified in dribbles over the decades, and the story is now very, very different than the one the jury heard. See the website (herhalfofhistory.com) for a transcript, sources, and pictures.In the show, I mention the Rosenberg Fund for...
8.11 Noor Inayat Khan: A Spy for Britain
November 03, 2022 05:00 - 26 minutesNot all the British spies fit the prototype. Noor Inayat Khan had an Indian father, an American mother, a Russian birthplace, and a French education. She was a timid, peace-loving mystic with an alarming tendency to expect everyone around her to be decent and good. She was also a phenomenally successful undercover radio operator for Britain, exceeding everyone's expectations, until she was betrayed to the Nazis.See the website (herhalfofhistory.com) for a transcript, pictures, and more source...
8.10 Lise de Baissac: A Spy in France
October 27, 2022 05:00 - 21 minutesLise de Baissac fled France when the Nazis marched in. But in Britain she went to genuine spy school, and then she parachuted back into France, where she helped arm and train the French Resistance. If you are a Marvel fan, you'll love it. Her story (and others like her) are definitely the inspiration for Captain Carter. Visit the website (herhalfofhistory.com) for a transcript, pictures, and sources. Visit the website (herhalfofhistory.com) for sources, transcripts, and pictures.Support the s...
8.9 Zheng Pingru: A Spy for China
October 20, 2022 05:00 - 21 minutesZheng Pingru is a Chinese heroine of World War II. Her story was tragically brief, and even today raises questions about the difficult role of women in war and occupation.Check out the website (herhalfofhistory.com) for a transcript, pictures, and sources. Visit the website (herhalfofhistory.com) for sources, transcripts, and pictures.Support the show on my Patreon page for bonus episodes, polls, and a general feeling of self-satisfaction.Join Into History for a community of ad-free history p...
8.8 Mata Hari: A World War I Spy
October 13, 2022 05:00 - 30 minutesMata Hari fit society's profile of a female spy so perfectly: beautiful, seductive, and duplicitous. That's why the Germans, and the British, and the French all thought she must actually be a spy. Even when they couldn't find any evidence of it. Here is the story of a woman who had many faults, but almost certainly not the one she was executed for. See the website (herhalfofhistory.com) for a transcript, pictures, and sources. Visit the website (herhalfofhistory.com) for sources, transcript...
8.7 Elizabeth Van Lew: A Union Spy (part 2)
October 06, 2022 05:00 - 23 minutesLast week we got Elizabeth to the point of working directly for the Union army from inside Richmond. This week, she and the other Unionists aid a great prison breakout, give a fallen Union colonel a hero's funeral, and survive to see the Union army enter the capital of the Confederacy. With the war over, she takes a job that has rarely gone to a woman up until this point, but also faces the enmity of her Southern neighbors for the rest of her long life.See the website (herhalfofhistory.com) f...
8.6 Elizabeth Van Lew: A Union Spy (part 1)
September 29, 2022 05:00 - 25 minutesWe have now arrived at the woman who inspired this whole series on spies! Because Elizabeth Van Lew is one of my absolute favorites, and her story is so good that I simply cannot squeeze it into only one episode. Elizabeth Van Lews was a daughter of the Old South, but also an ardent abolitionist. In this episode we take her from debutante to undercover agent in Richmond, Virginia.Visit the website (herhalfofhistory.com) for a transcript, pictures, and sources. Visit the website (herhalfofhist...
8.5 Harriet Tubman: Freedom's Spy (rebroadcast)
September 22, 2022 05:00 - 26 minutesI first covered Harriet Tubman last year in my series A Slave, But Now I'm Free, but some women are just too multi-talented to be slotted into only one series. Tubman was also a spy, officially for the Union army. Even before that, her efforts to free her family had all the elements of espionage: fake identities, coded messages, traveling through enemy territory, and more. See the website (herhalfofhistory.com) for a transcript, pictures, and sources. Visit the website (herhalfofhistory.com) ...
8.4 Policarpa Salavarrieta: A Spy for Colombia
September 15, 2022 05:00 - 17 minutesPolicarpa Salavarrieta is a heroine and martyr of Colombian independence. Good sources are scarce, but here's what we know and a bit about her legacy.This episode is part of series 8, Women in Espionage.See the website (herhalfof history.com) for a transcript, sources, and pictures. Visit the website (herhalfofhistory.com) for sources, transcripts, and pictures.Support the show on my Patreon page for bonus episodes, polls, and a general feeling of self-satisfaction.Join Into History for a com...
8.3 Agent 355: Washington's Mostly Mythical Spy
September 08, 2022 05:00 - 22 minutesThe Culper Spy Ring operated in British-held New York and funneled intel to General George Washington. Agent 355, the only woman among them, will probably never be conclusively identified. Was she Anna Strong? Was she a New York socialite? Was she someone else entirely? Here's the story of what we know.Please visit the website (herhalfofhistory.com) for a transcript, sources, and pictures. Visit the website (herhalfofhistory.com) for sources, transcripts, and pictures.Support the show on my P...
8.2 Aphra Behn: A Royalist Spy
September 01, 2022 05:00 - 22 minutesAphra Behn is most famous as the first woman to support herself as a writer in English, but before she launched her literary career, she had a more secretive one. This episode is the story of her career as a spy.See the website (herhalfofhistory.com) for pictures, sources, and a transcript. Visit the website (herhalfofhistory.com) for sources, transcripts, and pictures.Support the show on my Patreon page for bonus episodes, polls, and a general feeling of self-satisfaction.Join Into History f...
8.1 Spies in the Pre-Modern World
August 25, 2022 05:00 - 22 minutesEspionage has been called the world's second oldest profession, and women were in the thick of it from the very beginning. Unfortunately, a spy's default mode is to hide her tracks, which means that in the ancient and medieval world I found hint after tantalizing hint, but very few fully-fleshed histories of female spies. So today's episode is a round up of those hints, along with a brief history of the profession itself.See a transcript and pictures and sources at the website (herhalfofhisto...
7.11 The 20th Century Housewife and Beyond
July 14, 2022 05:00 - 30 minutesIndustrialization had already transformed the housewife's life, and it was not about to stop. Gas, electricity, running water, cars, ready-made clothes revolutionized everything all over again in the 20th century. And yet the hours women spent on household tasks did not budge for most of the century for a variety of reasons. I also touch on what it meant to be a housewife in communist countries like East Germany, Hungary, and China. But basically, no matter where you were, running a household...
7.10 Industrialization Hits the Housewife
July 07, 2022 05:00 - 28 minutesIndustrialization came in with a bang, and the housewife's life would never be the same again, but unfortunately, that does not mean her life got any easier. This episode covers what happened to housewives in the US and western Europe as industrialization got rolling in the 18th century and carried on through the 19th. Vist the website (herhalfofhistory.com) for a transcript, pictures, sources, and more. Visit the website (herhalfofhistory.com) for sources, transcripts, and pictures.Support ...
7.9 The Pre-Industrial Housewife
June 30, 2022 12:00 - 19 minutesHousewives are practically invisible in the historical record, so the general impression is that not much changed for them between the dawn of civilization and industrialization. That is almost certainly not true, and this episode is a discussion of what little we know about being a housewife in the pre-industrial era.See the website (herhalfofhistory.com) for a transcript, sources, and pictures. Visit the website (herhalfofhistory.com) for sources, transcripts, and pictures.Support the show ...
7.8 Some Like It Cold: A History of Your Fridge
June 23, 2022 05:00 - 24 minutesHeating things up has been under humanity's control for millennia. But keeping things cool is a modern miracle, and this episode shows how housewives did (or mostly didn't) manage it.See the website (herhalfofhistory.com) for a transcript, pictures, and sources. Visit the website (herhalfofhistory.com) for sources, transcripts, and pictures.Support the show on my Patreon page for bonus episodes, polls, and a general feeling of self-satisfaction.Join Into History for a community of ad-free his...
7.7 Some Like It Hot: A History of Cooking
June 16, 2022 05:00 - 27 minutesIt is ridiculous to try to cover the history of cooking in one episode, but it would be equally ridiculous to ignore it in a series on housewives and housework, so here is the grand overview on how your dinner got cooked, from fire roasting all the way to the microwave.See the website (herhalfofhistory.com) for a transcript, pictures, and sources. Visit the website (herhalfofhistory.com) for sources, transcripts, and pictures.Support the show on my Patreon page for bonus episodes, polls, and ...
7.6 Waste Not: A History of Your Trash
June 09, 2022 05:00 - 23 minutesSome household chores are more or less a thing of the past, but taking out the trash is a task that has grown over time. It's also transformed beyond all recognition. This episode discusses what women of the past had in their trash and what they did with it.See the website (herhalfofhistory.com) for a transcript, sources, and pictures. Visit the website (herhalfofhistory.com) for sources, transcripts, and pictures.Support the show on my Patreon page for bonus episodes, polls, and a general fe...
7.5 To Market, To Market: A History of Shopping
June 02, 2022 05:00 - 25 minutesHow many shopping trips does it take to keep the household running? And is it a man's job or a woman's? And what was it like when you got to the shop? Some of the answers are here in this episode.Check out the website (herhalfofhistory.com) for a transcript, pictures, and more details. Visit the website (herhalfofhistory.com) for sources, transcripts, and pictures.Support the show on my Patreon page for bonus episodes, polls, and a general feeling of self-satisfaction.Join Into History for a ...
7.4 Next to Godliness: A History of Housecleaning
May 26, 2022 05:00 - 24 minutesWomen have done an enormous amount of cleaning over the millennia, but precious few bothered to write down what that meant. The daily grind of housewives is largely hidden from history, but this episode covers some of what we do know about spring cleaning, whitewashing, carpet beating, and dishwashing, plus a few tidbits about the invention of the vacuum and the dishwasher.See the website for a full transcript, sources, and pictures. herhalfofhistory.com Visit the website (herhalfofhistory....
7.3 Let There Be Light: A History of Flipping the Switch
May 19, 2022 05:00 - 20 minutesKeeping out the night was a substantial, and sometimes insurmountable task for housewives of the past. This episode talks about the hazy origins of artificial light through the centuries to a time when lighting your house is so easy you probably don't even think of it as housework. See pictures, sources, and a full transcript on the website at herhalfof history.com Visit the website (herhalfofhistory.com) for sources, transcripts, and pictures.Support the show on my Patreon page for bonus epi...
7.2 Stitch in Time: A History of Clothing the Family
May 12, 2022 05:00 - 28 minutesThe drama of housewifery continues with the most time-consuming task there is: spinning, weaving, and sewing. There are four major natural fibers, and they are flax, cotton, wool, and silk. Each of the great civilizations, plus most of the not-so-great ones, had at least one of the those to work with, and women were (usually) responsible) for getting the fiber from plant (or animal) to fashion statement. Here's how the did (and also didn't) get it done.See a transcript and pictures on the web...
7.1 Wash on Monday: A History of Your Laundry
May 05, 2022 05:00 - 26 minutesLaundry has been on the household chore list ever since people first learned to spin plant and animal fibers into fabric. This episode traces its history from the days when a rinse in the stream was all you could do, to Romans pounding it with their feet, to Victorian women hauling and boiling 400 pounds of water for it. Until the 20th century when the automatic washer and dryer miraculuously relieved some (but not all) women of what one advice writer called the "most trying department of hou...
6.12 Wrapping Up the Ground-Breaking Novelists
April 07, 2022 05:00 - 16 minutesSince I began this series with a discussion of how we got to the point where women could write novels at all, I thought it would be fitting to wind it down with a discussion of how far we've come since Murasaki Shikibu and the world's first (great) novel. I'll also give you an explanation of how I chose the ones I chose and a long list of the women I didn't cover, in case you're in need of your next great read. And really, who isn't?See the website for sources and a transcript. Visit the webs...
6.11 Zora Neale Hurston Celebrates Her Heritage
March 31, 2022 05:00 - 25 minutesAfrican-American women wrote novels in the 19th century, but Zora Neale Hurston brought the art to a whole new level in the 20th.See the website for sources and pictures. Visit the website (herhalfofhistory.com) for sources, transcripts, and pictures.Support the show on my Patreon page for bonus episodes, polls, and a general feeling of self-satisfaction.Join Into History for a community of ad-free history podcasts plus bonus content. Follow me on Twitter as @her_half. Or on Facebook or Inst...
6.10 Agatha Christie, the Queen of Crime (Part 2)
March 24, 2022 05:00 - 22 minutesAgatha's mysterious disappearance is solved (sort of) and she goes on to become the bestselling novelist in history. Plus, a bit about why she is still so appealing, even a full century after her first books were written, and despite some heavy criticism from some quarters.See the website for sources and images. Visit the website (herhalfofhistory.com) for sources, transcripts, and pictures.Support the show on my Patreon page for bonus episodes, polls, and a general feeling of self-satisfact...
6.9 Agatha Christie, the Queen of Crime (Part 1)
March 17, 2022 05:00 - 20 minutesAgatha Christie is the bestselling novelist of all time. This episode takes her from an idyllic childhood, through multiple proposals, into a world war, out through her first several books, and into her own mysterious disappearance in 1926.See the website for sources and a transcript. Visit the website (herhalfofhistory.com) for sources, transcripts, and pictures.Support the show on my Patreon page for bonus episodes, polls, and a general feeling of self-satisfaction.Join Into History for a ...
6.8 Selma Lagerlöf Wins the Nobel
March 10, 2022 06:00 - 21 minutesThe Nobel Prize in Literature has been given 118 times. Selma Lagerlöf was the first woman to win it. Listen to hear the story of the prize and the woman.Sources and pictures are available on the website. Visit the website (herhalfofhistory.com) for sources, transcripts, and pictures.Support the show on my Patreon page for bonus episodes, polls, and a general feeling of self-satisfaction.Join Into History for a community of ad-free history podcasts plus bonus content. Follow me on Twitter as ...
6.7 Frances Hodgson Burnett Fights for Copyright
March 03, 2022 06:00 - 23 minutesBack in the day, authors lost control of their work the instant it was published (and sometimes before). Frances Hodgson Burnett, author of The Secret Garden and Little Lord Fauntleroy, was an enormously successful author, and she insisted her stories belonged to her.See more details and sources on the website. Visit the website (herhalfofhistory.com) for sources, transcripts, and pictures.Support the show on my Patreon page for bonus episodes, polls, and a general feeling of self-satisfactio...
6.6 Harriet Beecher Stowe Starts a War
February 24, 2022 06:00 - 25 minutesNot many novels get more attention in History class than they do in English class, but Uncle Tom's Cabin is the exception. This episode tells the story of Harriet Beecher Stowe, the Yankee white woman who fired up the North in the cause of emancipation.See sources, details, pictures, and a transcript on the website. Visit the website (herhalfofhistory.com) for sources, transcripts, and pictures.Support the show on my Patreon page for bonus episodes, polls, and a general feeling of self-satisf...
6.5 Mary Shelley and the Monster
February 17, 2022 06:00 - 29 minutesFrankenstein is an instantly recognizable icon. This week I tell you the story of the woman behind the monster. Mary Shelley achieved only moderate success in her lifetime, but since that time has been called the mother of science fiction, and also of horror, and even the wicked stepmother of genetic engineering. See more details, pictures, and a transcript on the website. Visit the website (herhalfofhistory.com) for sources, transcripts, and pictures.Support the show on my Patreon page for b...
6.4 Jane Austen's History of England
February 10, 2022 06:00 - 25 minutesThe teenage Jane Austen sometimes got tired of her textbooks. But instead of whining about it, she parodied them. In this episode I bring you a brief introduction followed by the full text of Jane Austen's "The History of England by a partial, prejudiced, & ignorant Historian," which is a very good description of exactly what it is. See more details and sources on the website. Visit the website (herhalfofhistory.com) for sources, transcripts, and pictures.Support the show on my Patreon page f...
6.3 Jane Austen and the Real Woman
February 03, 2022 06:00 - 27 minutesJane Austen wrote only a handful of novels, but they are so well-loved that 200 years on she still has an enormous number of readers, fan-fiction writers, and film adaptations. At the same time, her critics have accused her of being unbearably trivial and even boring. Listen to find out why she wrote the way she did and why so many of us still love her.Check out the website for sources and more details. Visit the website (herhalfofhistory.com) for sources, transcripts, and pictures.Support th...
6.2 Murasaki Shikibu and the World's First (Great) Novel
January 27, 2022 06:00 - 20 minutesThe Tale of Genji is often listed as the world's first novel. Is it a novel? Is it the first? That's highly contentious, but whatever you decide, Lady Murasaki Shikibu wrote this classic a very long time ago. See sources and more details on the website. Visit the website (herhalfofhistory.com) for sources, transcripts, and pictures.Support the show on my Patreon page for bonus episodes, polls, and a general feeling of self-satisfaction.Join Into History for a community of ad-free history podc...
6.1 Women and the Written Word
January 20, 2022 06:00 - 20 minutesThis new series covers ground-breaking novelists, but today I focus on how writing got to the point where anyone could write a novel. The story covers thousands of years, four continents, and three ancient women: Enheduanna, Artemisia, and Xu Mu.See more details and pictures on the website. Visit the website (herhalfofhistory.com) for sources, transcripts, and pictures.Support the show on my Patreon page for bonus episodes, polls, and a general feeling of self-satisfaction.Join Into History...
5.2 The Historical Mary: A Girl from Galilee
December 16, 2021 06:00 - 25 minutesMary's life is not well documented, but we know more about what life was generally like for Jewish peasant girls at the time, so listen in to hear about baking, weaving, farming, clothing, home-building, marriage, childbearing, and widowhood at the turn of the Millennium, with a brief foray into various conflicting means of dating the birth of Mary's first son.Visit the website for sources and more information. Visit the website (herhalfofhistory.com) for sources, transcripts, and pictures.Su...
5.1 The Historical Mary: Setting the Scene
December 09, 2021 06:00 - 23 minutesWhether you are religious or not, Mary's story is an important part of world heritage. She is obviously the great female figure throughout Christianity, but she is also highly honored in the Koran. There have been over 2000 sightings of her claimed since the year 40 BCE. Millions of people pray to her daily. Millions more read her story regularly. The modern world was shaped in part by people who believed in her whole heartedly. So many legends have grown up around her, and those legends have...
4.10 Harriet Tubman: Slave to Liberator
November 11, 2021 06:00 - 25 minutesThis woman is a superhero. She escaped herself and then put herself in danger many times to help others do the same. During the Civil War, she served as a nurse and educator and spy and commanded a charge of armed men. All without any formal education herself. After the war she continued to find so many ways to help her fellow human beings that if she were anybody else, that would be THE story. As it is, it feels like an afterthought to her underground railroad and civil war work. See the we...
4.9 Elizabeth Keckly: Slave to Entrepreneur
November 04, 2021 11:00 - 29 minutesIn 1868 Elizabeth Keckly published a remarkable book called Behind the Scenes, or Thirty Years a Slave, and Four Years in the White House. It showed the horrors of slavery and also her subsequent success as a fashionable dressmaker and also her complicated friendship with Mary Lincoln. Listen in for the story of a woman as remarkable as her book.Sources, pictures, and other information are available on the website. Visit the website (herhalfofhistory.com) for sources, transcripts, and picture...
4.8 Ellen Craft: A First Class Escape
October 28, 2021 05:00 - 21 minutesMany slaves who ran away ended up sneaking through the woods at night. They were cold, wet, and hungry, heart thumping, ears ever strained for the sound of men or dogs in pursuit. But Ellen Craft managed her escape differently. For her it was first class trains and steamers and hotels all the way. Listen to hear how she disguised herself as a white, slave-owning man and ran over a thousand miles to freedom. Visit the website for sources, pictures, and more information. Visit the website (he...