Ellen Craft,
I am so full of awe at
your and your husband’s escape from slavery. How did it feel to be in
Philadelphia at last? How did you manage not to waver once in your disguise? It
must have been terrifying to worry at
every moment about discovery. I am amazed at the calmness you must have
mustered to keep from slipping concern for your husband or your own self into
your words as you heard slaveholders slandering people of colour everywhere. I
wonder how it felt to suddenly be treated as a white person after a lifetime of
being undervalued and abused. Was it good to finally be appreciated as a human
being? Or did the accompanying assumption that you were now elevated above your
husband fill you with disgust at the system that forced you apart?
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