Archives of Maryland
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Samuel Edmonson (b. circa 1827 - d. 1907)
MSA SC 5496-047819
Fled from slavery (recaptured), Montgomery County, Maryland, 1848
Fled from slavery, New Orleans, Louisiana

Sources:

Newspapers and Journals -

Paynter, John H. "The Fugitives of the Pearl." The Journal of Negro History 1, no. 3 (June 1916)

Ricks, Mary Kay. "Escape on the Pearl", The Washington Post, August 12, 1998. http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-srv/national/horizon/aug98/pearl.htm

Books -

Angelis, Gina De. It Happened in Washington, DC. (Guilford, Conn: Two Dot Books, 2004)

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: The Heroic Bid for Freedom on the Underground Railroad. (New York: HarperCollins, 2008)

Stowe, Harriet Beecher. A Key to Uncle Tom's Cabin. (Boston: John P. Jewett & Co., 1853)

Internet Sources -

1870 United States Federal Census, Washington DC, [database on-line]. Provo, UT, USA: The Generations Network, Inc., 2003. Original data: 1870. Ancestry.com.

1880 United States Federal Census Place, Washington, District of Columbia; Roll  T9_122; Family History Film: 1254122; Page: 310.3000; Enumeration District: 98; Image: 0625. Ancestry.com

1900 United States Federal Census, Washington, Washington, District of Columbia; Roll  T623_158; Page: 26B; Enumeration District: 10. Ancestry.com

U.S. Freedmen Bank Records, 1865-1874 [database on-line]. Original data: Registers of Signatures of Depositors in Branches of the Freedman's Savings and Trust Company. Washington, D.C.: National Archives and Records Administration. Micropublication M816, 27 rolls. Ancestry.com

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