![]() ![]() A yellow fever epidemic struck New Orleans, forcing Bruin & Hill to send the two girls back to "Bruin's Slave Jail" in Alexandra, Virginia, to protect their investment. ![]() Hill, displayed them on an open porch facing the street hoping to attract buyers. Upon her capture, Emily, her sister Mary, and 4 other siblings were sold and sent to New Orleans where their new owners, slave trader partners Joseph Bruin & Henry P. ![]() It is historically known as The Pearl Incident. area slave owners captured The Pearl on Chesapeake Bay at Point Lookout, Maryland, and towed the ship and its cargo back to Washington D.C. On April 15, 1848, Emily, her sister Mary, and four of her brothers joined seventy-one other slaves on The Pearl in what was the largest escape attempt by enslaved people in U.S. Emily and her sister Mary became celebrities in the United States abolitionist movement after gaining their freedom from slavery.Įmily is the daughter of Paul and Amelia Edmonson, a free black man and enslaved woman in Montgomery County, Maryland. ![]()
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