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

Author/Contributor(s):	Conkling, Winifred
Publisher:	Little, Brown Books for Young Readers
Date:	01/26/2016
Binding:	Paperback
Condition:	NEW

In 1848, thirteen-year-old Emily Edmonson and seventy-five other enslaved people boarded the Pearl in Washington, D.C., hoping to sail north in the largest slave escape attempt in American history. Through Edmonson's journey from enslaved person to teacher at a school for African American women, Conkling illuminates the daily lives of enslaved people.