Author: Laurence Yep
Publisher: American Girl Publishing Incorporated
ISBN: 9781584855958
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 232
Book Description
Called boyish by her new family for being able to read and write, twelve-year-old, orphaned Spring Pearl's "odd ways" help save the family during the 1857 Opium War in Canton, China.
Spring Pearl
Author: Laurence Yep
Publisher: American Girl Publishing Incorporated
ISBN: 9781584855958
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 232
Book Description
Called boyish by her new family for being able to read and write, twelve-year-old, orphaned Spring Pearl's "odd ways" help save the family during the 1857 Opium War in Canton, China.
Publisher: American Girl Publishing Incorporated
ISBN: 9781584855958
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 232
Book Description
Called boyish by her new family for being able to read and write, twelve-year-old, orphaned Spring Pearl's "odd ways" help save the family during the 1857 Opium War in Canton, China.
Spring Pearl
Author: Laurence Yep
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781404619913
Category : China
Languages : en
Pages : 204
Book Description
Called boyish by her new family for being able to read and write, twelve-year-old, orphaned Spring Pearl's "odd ways" help save the family during the 1857 Opium War in Canton, China.
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781404619913
Category : China
Languages : en
Pages : 204
Book Description
Called boyish by her new family for being able to read and write, twelve-year-old, orphaned Spring Pearl's "odd ways" help save the family during the 1857 Opium War in Canton, China.
The Pearl
Author: Josephine F. Pacheco
Publisher: Univ of North Carolina Press
ISBN: 0807888923
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 320
Book Description
In the spring of 1848 seventy-six slaves from the nation's capital hid aboard a schooner called the Pearl in an attempt to sail down the Potomac River and up the Chesapeake Bay to freedom in Pennsylvania. When inclement weather forced them to anchor for the night, the fugitive slaves and the ship's crew were captured and returned to Washington. Many of the slaves were sold to the Lower South, and two men sailing the Pearl were tried and sentenced to prison. Recounting this harrowing tale from the preparations for escape through the participants' trial, Josephine Pacheco provides fresh insight into the lives of enslaved blacks in the District of Columbia, putting a human face on the victims of the interstate slave trade, whose lives have been overshadowed by larger historical events. Pacheco also details the Congressional debates about slavery that resulted from this large-scale escape attempt. She contends that although the incident itself and the trials and Congressional disputes that followed were not directly responsible for bringing an end to the slave trade in the nation's capital, they played a pivotal role in publicizing many of the issues surrounding slavery. Eventually, President Millard Fillmore pardoned the operators of the Pearl.
Publisher: Univ of North Carolina Press
ISBN: 0807888923
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 320
Book Description
In the spring of 1848 seventy-six slaves from the nation's capital hid aboard a schooner called the Pearl in an attempt to sail down the Potomac River and up the Chesapeake Bay to freedom in Pennsylvania. When inclement weather forced them to anchor for the night, the fugitive slaves and the ship's crew were captured and returned to Washington. Many of the slaves were sold to the Lower South, and two men sailing the Pearl were tried and sentenced to prison. Recounting this harrowing tale from the preparations for escape through the participants' trial, Josephine Pacheco provides fresh insight into the lives of enslaved blacks in the District of Columbia, putting a human face on the victims of the interstate slave trade, whose lives have been overshadowed by larger historical events. Pacheco also details the Congressional debates about slavery that resulted from this large-scale escape attempt. She contends that although the incident itself and the trials and Congressional disputes that followed were not directly responsible for bringing an end to the slave trade in the nation's capital, they played a pivotal role in publicizing many of the issues surrounding slavery. Eventually, President Millard Fillmore pardoned the operators of the Pearl.
Water-resources Investigations Report
Code of Federal Regulations
Author: United States. Department of Agriculture
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Agricultural laws and legislation
Languages : en
Pages : 796
Book Description
Special edition of the Federal register, containing a codification of documents of general applicability and future effect as of ... with ancillaries.
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Agricultural laws and legislation
Languages : en
Pages : 796
Book Description
Special edition of the Federal register, containing a codification of documents of general applicability and future effect as of ... with ancillaries.
Native Land
Author: Nadine Vaughan
Publisher: AuthorHouse
ISBN: 1438947313
Category : Family & Relationships
Languages : en
Pages : 149
Book Description
Catherine and Richard Berg live a charmed life...until the day their car crashes in the midst of a tropical Florida forest. Lost and alone, they stumble upon a mysterious family of Native Americans who possess uncanny powers of perception. What happens next changes their lives forever. www.nadinevaughanbooks.com
Publisher: AuthorHouse
ISBN: 1438947313
Category : Family & Relationships
Languages : en
Pages : 149
Book Description
Catherine and Richard Berg live a charmed life...until the day their car crashes in the midst of a tropical Florida forest. Lost and alone, they stumble upon a mysterious family of Native Americans who possess uncanny powers of perception. What happens next changes their lives forever. www.nadinevaughanbooks.com
Mineral Resources of the United States
Author: United States. Bureau of Mines
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Digital images
Languages : en
Pages : 1680
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Digital images
Languages : en
Pages : 1680
Book Description
Minerals Yearbook
Climatological Data for the United States by Sections
Author: United States. Weather Bureau
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Meteorology
Languages : en
Pages : 702
Book Description
A collection of the monthly climatological reports of the states, originally issued separately for each state or section. Similar data was combined in the Monthly weather review for July 1909 to Dec. 1913, also pub. separately during that time for each of the 12 districts. Previous to July 1909 monthly reports were issued for each state or section.
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Meteorology
Languages : en
Pages : 702
Book Description
A collection of the monthly climatological reports of the states, originally issued separately for each state or section. Similar data was combined in the Monthly weather review for July 1909 to Dec. 1913, also pub. separately during that time for each of the 12 districts. Previous to July 1909 monthly reports were issued for each state or section.
Miscellaneous Documents
Author: United States. Congress. House
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : United States
Languages : en
Pages : 552
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : United States
Languages : en
Pages : 552
Book Description