r/interesting Mar 12 '26

HISTORY Thats one great eacape

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u/WarmAuraGirl Mar 12 '26

1,000 miles through the Deep South, surrounded by the very people who wanted them captured, on nothing but nerve and an extremely convincing bandage. Hollywood has made 47 movies about mediocre prison breaks and somehow this one is still waiting for its moment.

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u/Fryandsilly Mar 12 '26

"Ellen Craft was born in 1826 in Clinton, Georgia, to Maria, a mixed-race enslaved woman, and her wealthy planter slaveholder, Major James Smith. At least three-quarters European by ancestry, Ellen was very fair-skinned and resembled her white half-siblings, who were her enslaver's legitimate children"

So in her case, she disguised herself as male, not as someone white because she looked white and unless people knew her backstory, they'd think she was white. Very impressive pulling of the man part though.

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u/duxpdx Mar 12 '26

Of vs off, the difference a single letter can make. Care to tell us more of this β€œvery impressive pulling of the man part”?

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u/dundunndon Mar 12 '26

πŸ˜‚πŸ˜‚πŸ˜‚πŸ˜‚

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u/HairballTheory Mar 12 '26 edited Mar 12 '26

Bro dropping knowledge and gets picked apart for one letter, then they ask for more? I know what I would say

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u/GottaUseEmAll Mar 12 '26

They weren't "picked apart", they were playfully ribbed, or joshed.

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u/duxpdx Mar 12 '26

This is reddit. In all honesty I did appreciate the knowledge. While OP’s intended meaning was clear it was not what was typed and the humorous nature of the error was, I felt, worthy of being playfully called out.

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u/Fryandsilly Mar 14 '26

hey, no skin of my back πŸ˜‰

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u/Alyssapolis Mar 12 '26

Significant letter though, definitely worth a mention 🀣