Claim: The Travelling Church emigrants did not take any slaves with them when they traveled over the frozen and danger-filled Cumberland Gap.
Evidence: The emigrants included slaves held by the Craigs and others. William Ellis as Joshua led the huge train over the frozen and danger-filled Cumberland Gap with only a little loss of life into the rugged frontier of Kentucky for their Promised Land. During the fall-winter of 1781, Craig as Moses and Capt.