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This book is well-written and researched. The journey isn't that epic if you've read other slave narratives (I mean, Harriet Jacobs spent seven years in an attic). The first third of the book covers the escape (Ellen Craft passed as a white man, journeying with her slave); this narrative is available in the book they wrote at the time, Running a Thousand Miles for Freedom. Woo's book continues to tell the story that happened after they arrived north--contextualizing it with the politics of the time (notably the Fugitive Slave Act of 1850) and their eventual flight to England. She also does extensive research to learn about their lives after they return home at the conclusion of the Civil War. If you haven't read much of this history or these sorts of narratives, I can see why the Times included it in the best of the year list. If you have read them it's quite a good book.