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Mary Edmonson (b. circa 1833 - d. circa 1853)
MSA SC 5496-15207
Fled from slavery, Washington, District of Columbia, 1848

Sources:

Newspapers and Journals -

Ricks,  Mary Kay.  "A Passage to Freedom." Washington Post, 17 February 2002.

Books -
Clayton, Ralph. Cash For Blood:  The Baltimore to New Orleans Domestic Slave Trade. Bowie, MD, Heritage Books, Inc., 2002.

Pacheco, Josephine. The Pearl: A Failed Slave Escape on the Potomac. North Carolina: UNC Press, 2005.

Ricks, Mary Kay. Escape on the Pearl. New York: Harper Collins Publishers, 2007.

Internet Sources -

Stephen Railton and the University of Virginia, Uncle Tom's Cabin and American Culture, "The Key to Uncle Toms Cabin," 2004.
http://www.iath.virginia.edu/utc/

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