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Passenger On The Pearl: The True Story Of Emily Edmonson'S Flight From Slavery
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NOW IN PAPERBACK!The pageturning, heartwrenching 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, thirteenyearold 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. Through Emily Edmonsons journey from enslaved person to teacher at a school for African American young women, Conkling illuminates the daily lives of enslaved people, the often changing laws affecting them, and the high cost of a failed escape.Clearly written, welldocumented, and chock full of maps, sidebars, and reproductions of photographs and engravings, the fascinating volume covers a lot of history in a short space. Conkling uses the tools of a novelist to immerse readers in Emilys experiences. A fine and harrowing true story. Kirkus Reviews[Passenger on the Pearl] covers information about slavery that is often not found in other volumes . . . Conklings work is intricate and detailed . . . A strong and wellsourced resource. School Library JournalConkling is a fine narrator . . . Readers familiar with the trials of Solomon Northup will find this equally involving. The Bulletin of the Center for Childrens BooksEdmondsons life story is compelling and inspiring. It provides the perfect hook for readers into the horrors of slavery. VOYAA Junior Library Guild Selection
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