Ellen Craft used her light skin to pose as a white man, with husband William as her servant, during their daring escape A black married couple who escaped slavery in the US and fled to England to ...

Williams and Davis and their first cousin, Gail, are great-great-grandchildren of William and Ellen Craft, a couple who achieved world renown for their dramatic escape from slavery in Georgia in 1848.

Ellen Craft was born into slavery in the south-eastern US state of Georgia. Like many enslaved people, Ellen Craft was conceived when her mother was raped by the white man who 'owned' her.