Passenger on the Pearl : the true story of Emily Edmonson's flight from slavery
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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Algonquin Young Readers
2015
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