The Pearl
Subtitle: A Failed Slave Escape on the Potomac
Publisher: The University of North Carolina Press
Published: February 9, 2005
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 320
ISBN-13: 9780807829189
Subjects: Slavery & emancipation; Social history; c 1800 to c 1900; History - General History; Ethnic Studies - African American Studies - Histor; Washington Region; Social Science; Sociology; United States - 19th Century; Maryland; Slavery; United States - Antebellum Era; 1848 runaway slaves; Potomac River; chesapeake Bay; U. S. Congress and Fugitive Slave Law; antislavery; Daniel Drayton; Edward Sayres; schooner The Pearl; urban slavery; Washington, D.C.; Washington Navy Yard; African American seaman; Deep South slave trade; Daniel Bell; Edmondson slave family; Horace Mann; Georgetown; Alexandria; Virginia; Maryland; Ethnic Studies - African American Studies - General; United States - Civil War; 19th century; Antislavery movements; Fugitive slaves; History
First sentence: In the spring of 1848 watermen Daniel Drayton and Edward Sayres undertook to lead one of the largest slave escape attempts in the United States.