Passenger on the Pearl : the true story of Emily Edmonson's flight from slavery /

Passenger on the Pearl : the true story of Emily Edmonson's flight from slavery / Winifred Conkling.

In 1848, thirteen-year-old Emily Edmonson, five of her siblings, and seventy other enslaved people boarded the Pearl under cover of night in Washington, D.C., hoping to sail north to freedom. Within a day, the schooner was captured, and the Edmonsons were sent to New Orleans to be sold into even cru...

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Main Author: Conkling, Winifred.
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Chapel Hill, North Carolina : Algonquin Young Readers, [2015]
Edition:First edition.
Subjects:
Edmonson, Emily, > 1835-1895 > Juvenile literature.
Edmondson family > Juvenile literature.
Edmondson family.
Pearl (Schooner) > Juvenile literature.
Fugitive slaves > Washington Region > Biography > Juvenile literature.
Fugitive slaves > Washington Region > History > 19th century > Juvenile literature.
Antislavery movements > Washington Region > History > 19th century > Juvenile literature.
Antislavery movements > United States > History > 19th century > Juvenile literature.
Underground Railroad > Washington Region > Juvenile literature.
Fugitive slaves > Washington Region > Biography.
Fugitive slaves > Washington Region > History > 19th century.
Antislavery movements > Washington Region > History > 19th century.
Antislavery movements > United States > History > 19th century.
Underground Railroad > Washington Region.
Washington Region > History > 19th century > Juvenile literature.
Washington Region > History > 19th century.

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Call Number: 306.362092 .C75215 2015
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