## A Note on the Accessible Record
This article draws on secondary sources and the digital text of the 1860 primary narrative. The NPS materials listed in the research prompt were not accessible via web fetch during the research phase for this piece; the facts they contain are substantially covered in the secondary sources consulted, which draw on and cross-reference the NPS narratives. Readers who want the NPS account — which is closely based on the 1860 narrative — can access it at the NPS website links provided in the source notes.
Several questions that a more thorough archival investigation would address are noted as unresolved in the source notes below. The 1878 libel case record, the specific identities and trajectories of the Craft children, the details of how and when the farm was lost — these are matters where the accessible secondary literature is imprecise and where primary archival work would likely produce a more detailed picture.
The William and Ellen Craft Foundation maintains a website with chronological and biographical information that supplements the scholarly literature. Some of its claims are not independently corroborated in academic sources; readers should treat it as a useful starting point while being aware that family and advocacy foundations sometimes preserve oral tradition and institutional memory alongside, or instead of, strictly documented history.
The sources consulted for this article are documented below, with the nature of each source indicated. Very short quotations from the 1860 narrative are rendered in quotation marks; paraphrases are original to this article. No original reporting or archival research was conducted; this is a secondary synthesis based on the available accessible literature.