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

Conkling, Winifred

2015

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\"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 crueler conditions. Passenger on the Pearl is the story of this thwarted escape, of the ramifications of its attempt, and of a family for whom freedom was the ultimate goal.\"--Amazon.com.

• Publisher: Algonquin Young Readers
• Subject: 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.
• ISBN: 9781616201968, 1616201967

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Call Number	Copies	Material	Location
E445.D6 C66 2015	1	BOOK	AUTOSTORE