Escape on the Pearl PDF book is popular History book written by Mary Kay Ricks. The book was released by Harper Collins on 2009-10-13 with total hardcover pages 450. Fast download link is given in this page, you could read Escape on the Pearl by Mary Kay Ricks in PDF, epub and kindle directly from your devices.
The largest mass escape of fugitive slaves in American history is thrillingly chronicled in this “readable . . . valuable account” (Kirkus). On the evening
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 th
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
Fifteen years after its hardcover debut, the FSG Classics reissue of the celebrated work of narrative nonfiction that won the National Book Award and changed th
