A Failed Slave Escape on the Potomac
by
Josephine F. Pacheco
Language: English
Release Date: March 15, 2010
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. When inclement weather forced them to anchor for the night, the fugitive slaves and the ship's...