Escape on the Pearl: The Heroic Bid for Freedom on the Underground Railroad [Book]

On the evening of April 15, 1848, nearly eighty enslaved Americans attempted one of history's most audacious escapes. Setting sail from Washington, D.C., on a schooner named the Pearl, the fugitives began a daring 225-mile journey to freedom in the North—and put in motion a furiously fought battle over slavery in America that would consume Congress, the streets of the capital, and the White House itself.

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Escape on the Pearl: The Heroic Bid for Freedom on the Underground Railroad (PB) (2008)

On the evening of April 15, 1848, nearly eighty enslaved Americans attempted one of history's most audacious escapes. Setting sail from Washington, D.C., on a schooner named the Pearl, the fugitives began a daring 225-mile journey to freedom in the North—and put in motion a furiously fought battle over slavery in America that would consume Congress, the streets of the capital, and the White House itself.

Escape on the Pearl: The Heroic Bid for Freedom on the Underground Railroad [Book]

History of the Pearl Incident at The Wharf

Escape on the Pearl: The Heroic Bid for Freedom on the Underground Railroad by Mary Kay Ricks, Paperback

April 15, 1848: The Escape on the Pearl Schooner - Zinn Education Project

Humanity today functions as a gigantic, world-encompassing system. Renowned world historian, Patrick Manning traces how this human system evolved from Homo Sapiens' beginnings over 200,000 years ago right up to the present day. He focuses on three great shifts in the scale of social organization - the rise of syntactical language, of agricultural society, and today's newly global social discourse - and links processes of social evolution to the dynamics of biological and cultural evolution.

A History of Humanity: The Evolution of the Human System [Book]

Escape on the Pearl: The Heroic Bid for Freedom on the Underground Railroad by Mary Kay Ricks, Paperback

Slavery's Borderland: Freedom and Bondage Along the Ohio River

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Searching for Three Escapees on The Pearl: The Rosier Men in 1848 – Mark Auslander

Prague Travel Tips: An American's Guide to Her Adopted City by Krysti Brice, Paperback

Desperate for freedom, 77 enslaved people tried to escape aboard the Pearl. They almost made it., Across America

The Pearl Incident: In 1848, 77 enslaved people tried to escape D.C. aboard a ship - The Washington Post