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Running from the Temple of Liberty: The Pearl Incident - Photo 6

Running from the Temple of Liberty: The Pearl Incident - Photo 6

Daniel Drayton, Edward Sayres, and Chester English docked the Pearl schooner at the Seventh Street wharf. After the enslaved passengers boarded the schooner, they sailed east of Washington, D.C. on the Potomac River.

Credit
Casimir Bohn and E. Sachse & Co., Library of Congress