Pearl incident
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The Pearl incident was the largest recorded nonviolent escape attempt by enslaved people in United States history. On April 15, 1848, seventy-seven slaves attempted to escape Washington, D.C. by saili
This daguerreotype photograph shows Mary Edmonson (standing) and Emily Edmonson (seated), shortly after they were freed in 1848.
This 1848 poster was made by the District of Columbia government to warn alarmed white citizens fearing a slave revolt, not to riot or commit acts of violence. The poster was in response to public concern and rumors of a slave uprising, following the capture of the schooner Pearl
Bernard Moore Campbell and Walter L. Campbell operated an extensive slave-trading business in the antebellum U.S. South. B. M. Campbell, in company with Austin Woolfolk, Joseph S. Donovan, and Hope H.
"Negroes Wanted" for the interstate slave trade (The Baltimore Sun, Nov. 14, 1843)
"Negroes for Sale", Advertiser and Register, Mobile, Alabama, April 26, 1845.
Gassaway may have been trafficked from Maryland to South Carolina by the Campbells via an agent named McDaniel ("Brought to the Jail" Edgefield Advertiser, February 28, 1849).
"Local Matters" (The Baltimore Sun, June 2, 1862).