City Directories of the United States, 1860-1901

City Directories of the United States, 1860-1901

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Publisher: Primary Source Microfilm

Published: 1983

Total Pages: 504

ISBN-13:

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The guide provides Research Publications' fiche and reel numbers, with their contents, for City directories of the United States in microform; segment 1 (pre 1860), segment 2 (1861-1881) and segment 3 (1882-1901).


The Pearl

The Pearl

Author: Josephine F. Pacheco

Publisher: Univ of North Carolina Press

Published: 2005

Total Pages: 346

ISBN-13: 9780807829189

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Chronicles the harrowing tale of seventy-six slaves from Washington, D.C., who hid aboard a schooner called the Pearl in 1848 in a desperate--and ultimately futile--attempt to sail down the Potomac River to freedom in Pennsylvania