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Author

Conkling, Winifred, author.

Title Passenger on the Pearl : the true story of Emily Edmonson's flight from slavery / Winifred Conkling.

Publication Info.

Chapel Hill, North Carolina : Algonquin Young Readers, 2015.

Copies

Location	Call No.	OPAC Message	Status
PHS Non-Fiction	306.3 CONKLING	---	Available

Edition	First edition.
Description	170 pages : illustrations, genealogical tables, photographs ; 24 cm
	text rdacontent
	unmediated rdamedia
	volume rdacarrier
Bibliography	Includes bibliographical references and index.
Audience	LEX 1160
Summary	1848: Emily Edmonson was among seventy-six fugitives caught on the Pearl during America's largest slave escape attempt. She was to be sent south - unless her father paid ransom.
Audience	Ages 15 & up.
	Grades 10 & up.
Study Program	AR MG RL 8 PTS 6 170990EN
Awards	A Junior Library Guild selection (JLG)
Subject	Edmonson, Emily, 1835-1895 -- Juvenile literature.
	Edmonson, Emily, 1835-1895.
	Edmonson, Emily, 1835-1895.
	Edmondson family -- Juvenile literature.
	Edmondson family.
	Edmondson family.
	Pearl (Schooner) -- Juvenile literature.
	Pearl (Schooner).
	Pearl (Schooner).
	Antislavery movements -- United States -- History -- 19th century -- Juvenile literature.
	Fugitive slaves -- Washington Region -- Biography -- Juvenile literature.
	Fugitive slaves -- Washington Region -- History -- 19th century -- Juvenile literature.
	Underground Railroad -- Washington Region -- Juvenile literature.
	Antislavery movements -- United States -- History -- 19th century.
	Fugitive slaves -- Washington Region -- Biography.
	Fugitive slaves -- Washington Region -- History -- 19th century.
	Underground Railroad -- Washington Region.
	Abolitionists -- United States -- History -- 19th century.
	Fugitive slaves -- Washington Region -- Biography.
	Fugitive slaves -- Washington Region -- History -- 19th century.
	Underground Railroad -- Washington Region.
	Washington Region -- History -- 19th century -- Juvenile literature.
	Washington Region -- History -- 19th century.
	Washington Region -- History -- 19th century.
ISBN	9781616201968 (hardcover)