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

432 pages first pub 2007 (editions)

nonfiction history emotional informative slow-paced
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On the evening of April 15, 1848, seventy-seven enslaved Americans set sail from Washington, DC, on a fifty-four ton schooner named the Pearl. They had just begun the largest known escape attempt in the history of the Underground Railroad. Mary Ka...

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