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Show Notes
Becca and Rebecca discuss the Pearl Incident - a dramatic attempted escape of enslaved persons in Washington DC - that most people have never heard of.
I really feel like this should be a better known event ... The Pearl Incident was the largest non violent attempted escape of enslaved people in our nation's history.
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- The Pearl Incident - White House Historical Society
- “A Passage to Freedom” - The Washington Post
- The Pearl - Congressional Cemetery
- “Desperate for freedom, 77 enslaved people tried to escape aboard the Pearl. They almost made it.” - The Washington Post
- A Key To Uncle Tom’s Cabin - Harriet Beecher Stowe