Sense Sonnet - Pumper

 Ellen and William Craft

Slaves, Ellen and William Craft, in

1848 did escape

Georgia, thanks to Ellen's light skin

And disguise in a young man's shape.

For months the married couple planned

On ways and means that Ellen would

Appear as a young white man and

As William's owner, the two could

Leave the South successfully

And travel to the North where they

Were able to live their lives free.

Decades later there came the day,

The Crafts returned to Georgia where

They taught the newly freed blacks there.