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, Emily Edmonson, thirteen, along with five siblings and
seventy other enslaved people, boarded the "Pearl "in the Potomac
River in Washington, D.C., in a bid to reach freedom. Within a day,
the schooner was captured, and the six Edmonsons were sent to New
Orleans to be sold. Emily and Mary were saved from the even crueler
conditions when the threat of yellow fever forced their return to
Virginia. They were eventually ransomed with the help of their
parents and abolitionists, including Harriet Beecher Stowe, who
later used them as models for characters in "Uncle Tom s Cabin."
Both girls went to Oberlin College, where Mary died of
tuberculosis. Emily graduated and became a teacher at the first
school in Washington, D.C., dedicated to the education of African
American girls and young women--an idea so controversial that even
Frederick Douglass advised against it. Emily also worked on behalf
of abolition for the rest of her life."Passenger on the Pearl"
illustrates a turbulent time in American history as seen through
the daily lives of enslaved people; the often changing laws
affecting them; the high cost of a failed attempt to reach liberty;
the fate of all fourteen of the Edmonson children and their mother,
Milly, whose goal to die a free woman shaped the lives of all her
children; and the stories of the slave traders and abolitionists
whose lives intersected with the Edmonsons .With more than fifty
period photographs and illustrations."
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