Name: Book Club - Master Slave Husband Wife by Ilyon Woo
Start: 2025-05-14T17:45:00-05:00
End: 2025-05-14T19:30:00-05:00
Location: Compass Point home of Dirty Girl Adventures

Book Club - Master Slave Husband Wife by Ilyon Woo

Here you will find our events, LIVE MUSIC, ART, YOGA and classes to LISTEN, LEARN and GROW.   Some are hosted at Compass Point home of Dirty Girl Adventures at 800 N. Kansas Ave. in NOTO the Arts and Entertainment District in Topeka, Kansas.  Other events are held throughout Northeast Kansas, these include hiking, kayaking, backpacking and camping adventures.

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Join us for our  bi-monthly Book Club meeting Wednesday May 14th!  We're reading Master Slave Husband Wife by Ilyon Woo!

Book Club Social Gatherings

We meet every two months to discuss the book selected.  It's a social gathering to discuss what we've read and enjoy gathering together.

Join us for our bi-monthly Book Club! &nbsp;WEDNESDAY MAY 14 5:45- 7:30.We're reading a biography called ... Master Slave Husband Wife: An Epic Journey from Slavery to Freedom By Ilyon Woo &nbsp; <ul><li>Pulitzer Prize Winner 2024</li><li>Good Reads Choice Award&nbsp;</li><li>Nominee for Readers' Favorite History &amp; Biography (2023)&nbsp;</li><li>New York Times Bestseller | New York Times 10 Best Books of 2023 &nbsp;</li></ul>The remarkable true story of Ellen and William Craft, who escaped slavery through daring, determination, and disguise, with Ellen passing as a wealthy, disabled White man and William posing as “his” slave. &nbsp;In 1848, a year of international democratic revolt, a young, enslaved couple, Ellen and William Craft, achieved one of the boldest feats of self-emancipation in American history. Posing as master and slave, while sustained by their love as husband and wife, they made their escape together across more than 1,000 miles, riding out in the open on steamboats, carriages, and trains that took them from bondage in Georgia to the free states of the North. &nbsp;Along the way, they dodged slave traders, military officers, and even friends of their enslavers, who might have revealed their true identities.&nbsp;The tale of their adventure soon made them celebrities, and generated headlines around the country. Americans could not get enough of this charismatic young couple, who traveled another 1,000 miles criss-crossing New England, drawing thunderous applause as they spoke alongside some of the greatest abolitionist luminaries of the day—among them Frederick Douglass and William Wells Brown. &nbsp;But even then, they were not out of danger. With the passage of an infamous new Fugitive Slave Act in 1850, all Americans became accountable for returning refugees like the Crafts to slavery. Then yet another adventure began, as slave hunters came up from Georgia, forcing the Crafts to flee once again—this time from the United States, their lives and thousands more on the line and the stakes never higher. &nbsp;With three epic journeys compressed into one monumental bid for freedom, Master Slave Husband Wife is an American love story—one that would challenge the nation’s core precepts of life, liberty, and justice for all—one that challenges us even now.

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