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Conkling, Winifred.
Passenger on the Pearl
[Libby] :
The True Story of Emily Edmonson's Flight from Slavery.
Algonquin Books,
2015.
family.
Historical.
YA.
Black history.
Diversity.
photographs.
girls.
illustrated.
Anti-Slavery.
American Civil War.
Frederick Douglass.
Civil Rights.
Young Adult.
women.
Abolition.
Siblings.
escape.
educational.
New Orleans.
emancipation.
African American.
Kids.
Harriet Beecher Stowe.
Uncle Tom's Cabin.
Underground Railroad.
childrens nonfiction.
diverse books.
upper middle grade.
transatlantic slave trade.
Fugitive Slave Act.
Thirteenth Amendment.
oberlin college.
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History.
Multi-Cultural.
Geography.
Young Adult Nonfiction.
HTML:<b>NOW IN PAPERBACK!<br /> 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.</b><br /> In 1848, thirteen-year-old Emily Edmonson, five of her siblings, and seventy other enslaved people boarded the <i>Pearl</i> 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 Edmonson’s 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.<br /> <b>“Clearly written, well-documented, 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 Emily’s experiences. A fine and harrowing true story.” —<i>Kirkus Reviews</i><br /> “[<i>Passenger on the Pearl</i>] covers information about slavery that is often not found in other volumes . . . Conkling’s work is intricate and detailed . . . A strong and well-sourced resource.” —<i>School Library Journal</i><br /> “Conkling is a fine narrator . . . Readers familiar with the trials of Solomon Northup will find this equally involving.” —<i>The Bulletin of the Center for Children’s Books</i><br /> “Edmondson’s life story is compelling and inspiring. It provides the perfect hook for readers into the horrors of slavery.” —<i>VOYA</i></b><br /> <b>A Junior Library Guild Selection</b>.
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