The Pearl: A Failed Slave Escape on the Potomac
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| Rating | : | 4.40 (500 Votes) |
| Asin | : | B005MWRT1E |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 320 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2013-03-24 |
| Language | : | English |
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"Fantastic Deal" according to J. Campbell. Amazing story about America's early years! Hard to believe this is the same country. Book was a great deal.
"An important book. It conveys a tactile sense of how the institution of slavery degraded our nation's capital, how fevered the South's defense of slavery became, how sputtering and fragmented the North's attack on it was, and how the sounds of a splintering nation rent the air. Every serious student of history should read this book. Pacheo's compelling narrative and graceful prose make it easily accessible to lay audiences and specialists alike." -- NC Historical Review"A thorough treatment and a good place to start for anyone interested in the Pearl." -- Journal of the Early Republic"Pacheco's story of the Pearl is riveting. (Joseph P. It is just a splendid piece of work. Reidy, Howard University)""Josephine Pacheco has w
Recounting this harrowing tale from the preparations for escape through the participants' trial, Josephine Pacheco provides fresh insight into the lives of enslaved blacks in the District of Columbia, putting a human face on the victims of the interstate slave trade, whose lives have been overshadowed by larger historical events. Many of the slaves were sold to the Lower South, and two men sailing the Pearl were tried and sentenced to prison. Eventually, President Millard Fillmore pardoned the operators of the Pearl.. In the spring of 1848 seventy-six slaves from the nation's capital hid aboard a schooner called the Pearl in an attempt to sail down the Potomac River and up the Chesapeake Bay to freedom in Pennsylvania. She contends that although the incident itself and the trials and Congressional disputes that followed were not directly responsible for bringing about an end