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The Pearl escape attempt
April 15, 1848
Southwest Waterfront, Washington
Public domain · Wikimedia Commons
Seventy-seven enslaved people boarded a schooner on the Potomac in the largest single escape attempt in American history. Becalmed and captured within two days, most were sold south, and the outrage helped end the slave trade in the capital.
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