Passenger on the Pearl: The True Story of Emily Edmonson's Flight from Slavery Cover:Paperback Regina Medal

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Passenger on the Pearl: The True Story of Emily Edmonson's Flight from Slavery Cover:Paperback Regina MedalNOW IN PAPERBACK! The page turning, heart wrenching true story of one young woman willing to risk her safety and even her life for a chance at freedom in the largest slave escape attempt in American history. 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