Do you know the incredible story of Ellen and William Craft, two slaves who disguised themselves as a white male master and “his” black slave and escaped the South to their freedom?

This remarkable historical story also leads to the important question of slavery in education.

Join llyon Woo, YC '94 and New York Times best-selling author of Master, Slave, Husband, Wife, and Crystal Feimster, Associate Professor in the Departments of African American Studies and History and the Programs of American Studies and Women, Gender, and Sexuality Studies, Head of Pierson College, and member of the Yale & Slavery Working Group, in conversation.

Speakers:

llyon Woo, YC '94 and New York Times best-selling author of Master, Slave, Husband, Wife

Crystal Feimster, Associate Professor in the Departments of African American Studies and History and the Programs of American Studies and Women, Gender, and Sexuality Studies, Head of Pierson College, and member of the Yale & Slavery Working Group.

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