# Event Details

- **Event Name**: Adult Book Discussion
- **Event Start and End Date**: Wed, 24 Jun, 2026 at 01:00 pm – Wed, 24 Jun, 2026 at 02:00 pm
- **Event Description**: Join us for an Adult Book Discussion on Wednesday, June 24 from 1 to 2 p.m. in the Reading Room in the Timothy C. Hauenstein Reynolds Township Library. The June book selection is Master Slave Husband Wife: An Epic Journey from Slavery to Freedom by Ilyon Woo. Copies are available for checkout.

About the Book: In 1848, a year of international democratic revolt, a young, enslaved couple, Ellen and William Craft, achieved one of the boldest feats of self-emancipation in American history. Posing as master and slave, while sustained by their love as husband and wife, they made their escape together across more than 1,000 miles, riding out in the open on steamboats, carriages, and trains that took them from bondage in Georgia to the free states of the North.

Along the way, they dodged slave traders, military officers, and even friends of their enslavers, who might have revealed their true identities. The tale of their adventure soon made them celebrities, and generated headlines around the country. Americans could not get enough of this charismatic young couple, who traveled another 1,000 miles criss-crossing New England, drawing thunderous applause as they spoke alongside some of the greatest abolitionist luminaries of the day—among them Frederick Douglass and William Wells Brown.

But even then, they were not out of danger. With the passage of an infamous new Fugitive Slave Act in 1850, all Americans became accountable for returning refugees like the Crafts to slavery. Then yet another adventure began, as slave hunters came up from Georgia, forcing the Crafts to flee once again—this time from the United States, their lives and thousands more on the line and the stakes never higher.

With three epic journeys compressed into one monumental bid for freedom, Master Slave Husband Wife is an American love story—one that would challenge the nation’s core precepts of life, liberty, and justice for all—one that challenges us even now.

About the Author: Ilyon Woo is the author of The Great Divorce: A Nineteenth-Century Mother’s Extraordinary Fight Against Her Husband, the Shakers, and Her Times. She received a Whiting Creative Nonfiction Writing Grant for Master Slave Husband Wife. Her writing has appeared in The Boston Globe and The Wall Street Journal, and she has received support for her research from the National Endowment for the Humanities and the American Antiquarian Society, among other institutions. She holds a BA in the Humanities from Yale College and a PhD in English from Columbia University.
- **Event URL**: https://allevents.in/howard-city/adult-book-discussion/200030274762642
- **Event Categories**: Art, trips-adventures, literary-art, fine-arts, Contests
- **Interested Audience**: 
  - total_interested_count: 0

## Ticket Details


## Event venue details

- **city**: Howard City
- **state**: MI
- **country**: United States
- **location**: 117 Williams St, Howard City, MI, United States, Michigan 49329
- **lat**: 43.39779
- **long**: -85.46969
- **full address**: 117 Williams St, Howard City, MI, United States, Michigan 49329

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## FAQs

- **Q**: When and where is Adult Book Discussion being held?
  - **A:** Adult Book Discussion takes place on Wed, 24 Jun, 2026 at 01:00 pm to Wed, 24 Jun, 2026 at 02:00 pm at 117 Williams St, Howard City, MI, United States, Michigan 49329.
- **Q**: Who is organizing Adult Book Discussion?
  - **A:** Adult Book Discussion is organized by Timothy C. Hauenstein Reynolds Township Library.

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