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

By Winifred Conkling
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Hardcover edition

Publisher Algonquin Imprint Algonquin ISBN

9781616201968

Awards and Honors 2015 Cybils Awards Nomination, Young Adult Nonfiction
NCSS Carter G. Woodson Book Award 2016 Winner, Secondary

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

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Language: Mild Language,Sexual Content: Reference/Discussion,Violence: Mild Violence,Violence: Sexual Assault/Rape Reference/Discussion,Violence: Suicide

1848: Emily Edmonson was among seventy-six fugitives caught on the Pearl during America’s largest slave escape attempt. She was to be sent south—unless her father paid ransom. Time line. Edmonson family tree. Sources and notes. Bibliography. Index. Maps. Black-and-white reproductions of period documents and artwork. Black-and-white photographs.
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