# Running a Thousand Miles for Freedom — Chapters explained

> Chapter companions for Running a Thousand Miles for Freedom by William Craft.

- [Epigraph](https://www.betterreads.online/discover/running_a_thousand_miles_for_freedom_se/chapters/epigraph.md): The epigraph quotes William Cowper's poem, asserting that slaves who breathe English air are instantly free, establishing the theme of freedom through English soil.
- [Running a Thousand Miles for Freedom](https://www.betterreads.online/discover/running_a_thousand_miles_for_freedom_se/chapters/running-a-thousand-miles-for-freedom.md): William and Ellen Craft, a married enslaved couple in Georgia, devise a daring escape plan in December 1848. Ellen, who is nearly white, disguises herself as an invalid white gentleman, while William poses as her slave. 
- [Endnotes](https://www.betterreads.online/discover/running_a_thousand_miles_for_freedom_se/chapters/endnotes.md): The endnotes provide explanatory context on Southern slave society, including laws against intermarriage and the demeaning naming conventions for enslaved people, which influenced literary characters like those in Uncle 

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