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Join other book-loving members for this month's discussion of the 2024 Pulitzer Prize winner in biography Master Slave Husband Wife: An Epic Journey from Slavery to Freedom written by Ilyon Woo. This true story provides a gripping narrative of the Crafts, an enslaved couple who achieved one of the boldest feats of self-emancipation in American history. The Crafts escaped Georgia in 1848 during an incredibly tumultuous time in history, with light-skinned Ellen disguised as a disabled white gentleman and her husband William as her manservant. Their successful disguises exploited assumptions about race, class, and disability to hide in plain view on the journey to the North. The tale of their adventure made them celebrities and generated headlines across the country, leading to their drawing thunderous applause when they told their story alongside the greatest abolitionist luminaries of the day…among them Frederick Douglass and William Wells Brown. But even as they gained fame, they were not out of danger. With the 1850 passage of the Fugitive Slave Act, they were no longer safe in the United States and were eventually forced to flee to live in England. Mary Watt will lead the discussion that evening at the Woman’s Club.