Preserving and amplifying the historical legacy of William & Ellen Craft
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The historic sites highlighted below are just a few of those overseas that honor William and Ellen Craft.
William & Ellen Craft's U.K anti-slavery activism is held in such regard that in 2021 they received a prestigious English Heritage Blue Plaque, placed on their home London’s Hammersmith area. Not only was Princess Diana a 2021 “classmate”, but previous Blue Plaque recipients incl.: Ada Lovelace, daughter of their patron Lady Bryon (and her ex-husband/fellow Blue Plaque recipient, Lord Byron); Darwin, Dickens; Freud; Gandhi; Sir Isaac Newton; suffragette, Emmeline Pankhurst; to name a few.
In the same vein as English Heritage, the Shepherds Bush Housing Association put up a marker to indicate that William and Ellen resided in a Cambridge Grove area home, 1857-1867. Placed in 1995, the brown plaque is located on the Shepherds Bush Housing Association building.
Bestowed in 2018, here it's being held by a Craft descendant.
The Ockham Schools are where William & Ellen Craft learned to read and write, then eventually taught there.
Bestowed in 2018, here it's being held by a Craft descendant.
The congregation was founded in 1747 in Edinburgh, Scotland.
The church was built in the early 1800s, opening in 1820. William & Ellen spoke there in December 1850, to speak against enslavement.
The congregation was founded in 1747 in Edinburgh, Scotland.
William Craft lectured at Aberdeen, Scotland's Gilcomston Church in 1861, as part of his (and Ellen's) ongoing anti-slavery activism.