{"product_id":"1856-harriet-beecher-stowe-her-personal-work-with-fugitive-slaves-underground-railroad","title":"1856 HARRIET BEECHER STOWE. Her Personal Work with Fugitive Slaves - Underground Railroad.","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cmeta charset=\"utf-8\"\u003eAn important and rare anti-slavery publication detailing the famous 1848 \u003ci\u003ePearl\u003c\/i\u003e incident, the largest recorded escape attempt by enslaved people in American history.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eAuthored by Harriet Beecher Stowe, the work recounts the story of 77 enslaved individuals who attempted to sail to freedom from Washington, D.C., aboard the schooner \u003ci\u003ePearl. \u003c\/i\u003eAfter a general account, the account focuses on the re-enslavement, trial, and eventual ransoming of the Edmondson family, including sisters Emily and Mary. Stowe had previously used the tragic plight of the Edmondson sisters as direct factual material for \u003ci\u003eThe Key to Uncle Tom's Cabin\u003c\/i\u003e (1853), and this standalone narrative served to personalize the brutal human cost of the Fugitive Slave Act and the domestic slave trade for a Northern reading public. \u003cmeta charset=\"utf-8\"\u003eThe account followed by a personal plea from Harriet Beecher Stowe [p.63] and a poem by Miss M. B. Tuckey entitled, \u003cem\u003ePrayer for the Negro\u003c\/em\u003e. \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe family's freedom was eventually purchased with the aid of Henry Ward Beecher's church and the girls sent to college at Oberlin, room and board paid for by Harriet Beecher Stowe and the profits from \u003cem\u003eUncle Tom's Cabin\u003c\/em\u003e. \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003ePublished in Cincinnati by the American Reform Tract and Book Society, an aggressive anti-slavery publishing house founded by abolitionist evangelicals who broke away from mainstream tract societies for refusing to condemn human bondage. \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eStowe, Mrs. Harriet Beecher. The Edmondson Family, and the Capture of the Schooner Pearl. Cincinnati. American Reform Tract and Book Society. 1856. 64pp.\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eA good copy in original blind stamped cloth, some fading and stains as shown; some sporadic foxing. Generally sound. Small stain at foredge extending to fore-margin of leaves at points. Generally solid and clean. \u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Specs Fine Books","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51302442762276,"sku":null,"price":250.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"url":"https:\/\/specsfinebooks.com\/products\/1856-harriet-beecher-stowe-her-personal-work-with-fugitive-slaves-underground-railroad","provider":"Specs Fine Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}