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

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

Mary Kay Ricks

448 pages first pub 2007 (editions)

nonfiction history emotional informative slow-paced
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On the evening of April 15, 1848, seventy-seven slaves attempted one of history's most audacious escapes—and put in motion a furiously fought battle over slavery in America that would consume Congress, the streets of the capital, and the White Hou...

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