'They were here, and they were fortified here, and they were sheltered by these incredible heroes': Ilyon Woo, who wrote a bestseller about an enslaved couple's journey to freedom in Boston, was stunned to see inside this safe house where they hid.
Ellen and William Craft escaped the South and found freedom in Boston; 175 years later, local author Ilyon Woo is telling their story.
In her decade's worth of research, Woo combed through thousands of documents, visiting numerous historic sites, but a central part of the Crafts' time in Boston eluded her. "They were hiding right here," said Woo."It's really incredible. I've never been inside. It's privately owned, but I hear that there are underground tunnels there."
"It's about four feet wide and eight feet — we have eight feet of it or so," Mary Grier said."We know it went as far as West Cedar Street, the next street down.""A second door led out from the basement while a secret tunnel, a dark crawl through space accessible only from the sub-basement, allowed other visitors to enter and exit the house unseen," the passage reads.
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