Passenger on the Pearl : the true story of Emily Edmonson's flight from slavery

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Passenger on the Pearl : the true story of Emily Edmonson's flight from slavery

Title remainder

the true story of Emily Edmonson's flight from slavery

Statement of responsibility

Winifred Conkling

Creator

• Conkling, Winifred

Subject

• Antislavery movements -- History -- 19th century -- Washington Region -- Juvenile literature
• Antislavery movements -- United States -- History -- 19th century -- Juvenile literature
• Antislavery movements -- Washington Region -- History -- 19th century
• Biographies
• Biographies
• Biographies
• Edmondson family
• Edmondson family -- Juvenile literature
• Edmonson, Emily, 1835-1895 -- Juvenile literature
• Electronic books
• Fugitive slaves -- History -- 19th century -- Washington Region -- Juvenile literature
• Fugitive slaves -- Washington Region -- Biography
• Fugitive slaves -- Washington Region -- Biography | Juvenile literature
• Fugitive slaves -- Washington Region -- History -- 19th century
• History
• JUVENILE NONFICTION -- General
• Antislavery movements -- History -- 19th century
• Juvenile works
• Pearl (Schooner)
• Pearl (Schooner) -- Juvenile literature
• Underground Railroad -- Washington Region
• Underground Railroad -- Washington Region -- Juvenile literature
• Washington Region -- History -- 19th century
• Washington Region -- History -- 19th century -- Juvenile literature
• collective biographies
• JUVENILE NONFICTION -- People & Places -- United States -- African American

Genre

• Biography
• Electronic books
• History
• Juvenile literature
• Juvenile works
• collective biographies
• Biographies

Language

eng

Summary

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 Edmonsons were sent to New Orleans to be sold into even crueler conditions. Passenger on the Pearl is the story of this thwarted escape, of the ramifications of its attempt, and of a family for whom freedom was the ultimate goal. Through an engaging narrative, informative sidebars, and more than fifty period photographs and illustrations, Winifred Conkling takes readers on Emily Edmonson & rsquo;s journey from enslaved person to teacher at a school for African American young women. Conkling illuminates a turbulent time in American history, showing the daily lives of enslaved people, the often-changing laws affecting them, the high cost of a failed escape, and the stories of slave traders and abolitionists

Biography type

contains biographical information

Cataloging source

VALIL

Dewey number

306.3/62092

Index

no index present

Interest level

MG+

LC call number

E445.D6

LC item number

C66 2015eb

Literary form

non fiction

Nature of contents

• dictionaries
• bibliography

Reading level

8.0

Study program name

Accelerated Reader

Target audience

juvenile