An overlooked advertisement, entitled “An Incident at the South” (1849), calls attention to Ellen Craft's Spanish masquerade during her 1848 escape from American slavery. The author underscores her masculine costume, feigning disability, running to sea, and “a darkness of complexion that betokened Spanish extraction.” Despite contemporary criticism, the advertisement asserts Spanish-ness in the production history of Ellen's escape; thus the essay considers a reinterpretation of Ellen's transnational masquerades by reexamining the advertisement (1849) and in relation to her portrait (1850) and slave narrative (1860). Of emphasis is a history of hemisphere conflict – over land, at the borderlands, and at sea – during Anglo-American expansion, Spanish/Mexican displacement, and antebellum enslavement. Ellen's story is also contextualized with rising literary traditions of the mid-nineteenth century.

一则被忽视的广告，题为“南方事件”（1849 年），引起人们对艾伦·克拉夫特 1848 年逃离美国奴隶制期间的西班牙化装舞会的关注。作者强调了她的男性服装、假装残疾、奔向大海，以及“表明西班牙血统的深色肤色”。尽管受到当代批评，该广告还是在艾伦逃亡的制作历史中断言了西班牙特色；因此，本文考虑通过重新审视广告（1849）以及与她的肖像（1850）和奴隶叙事（1860）的关系来重新解释艾伦的跨国化装舞会。重点是英美扩张、西班牙/墨西哥流离失所和战前奴役期间西半球冲突的历史——陆地、边境和海上。艾伦的故事也与十九世纪中叶新兴的文学传统有着密切的联系。