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Canada and the United States

Josephine F. Pacheco. The Pearl: A Failed Slave Escape on the Potomac. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press. 2005. Pp. x, 307. $29.95.

In April 1848, seventy-six enslaved men and women from Washington, D.C., tried to escape from bondage aboard a schooner called the Pearl, only to be captured by pursuers after the ship was forced to wait out a storm on the Chesapeake Bay. As punishment, most of these men and women (including a woman owned by the former first lady, Dolley Madison) were sold to slave traders who transported them to the Deep South for resale. The two white men sailing the Pearl, Daniel Drayton and Edward Sayres, narrowly escaped lynching, only to be tried and imprisoned for their efforts in helping the slaves to escape. They remained in jail until 1852, when they were pardoned by President Millard Fillmore. Not only was this one of the largest attempted slave escapes in U.S. history, but it also raised questions about the role of slavery and the slave trade in the nation's capital that would help lead to the Compromise of 1850 and the road to southern secession.

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