Personal Memoir of Daniel Drayton, for Four Years and Four Months a Prisoner (for Charity's Sake) in Washington Jail: Including a Narrative of the Voyage and Capture of the Schooner Pearl
Personal Memoir of Daniel Drayton, for Four Years and Four Months a Prisoner (for Charity's Sake) in Washington Jail: Including a Narrative of the Voyage and Capture of the Schooner Pearl
In 1848, Captain Daniel Drayton set sail on the schooner Pearl with a cargo that could cost him everything: 77 enslaved men, women, and children seeking freedom. What began as a voyage of hope ended in betrayal, imprisonment, and four years and four months in a Washington jail cell. This memoir tells that story in Drayton's own words, from his early years at sea to the moment of capture, from the grinding tedium of imprisonment to the moral awakening that cost him his livelihood and his liberty. The Pearl's passengers were returned to bondage. Drayton was tried for kidnapping, though he maintained he only offered passage to those who chose freedom. Through it all, he never wavered. This is a testament to what one man believed worth suffering for, and what that belief cost him in a nation hurtling toward civil war.
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Drayton, Daniel. Personal Memoir of Daniel Drayton, for Four Years and Four Months a Prisoner (for Charity's Sake) in Washington Jail: Including a Narrative of the Voyage and Capture of the Schooner Pearl. Lex, lex-books.com/book/personal-memoir-of-daniel-drayton-for-four-years-and-four-months-a-prisoner-for--255cd2aa-7280-4eea-8144-030844e76d63.Drayton, D. (n.d.). Personal Memoir of Daniel Drayton, for Four Years and Four Months a Prisoner (for Charity's Sake) in Washington Jail: Including a Narrative of the Voyage and Capture of the Schooner Pearl. Lex. https://lex-books.com/book/personal-memoir-of-daniel-drayton-for-four-years-and-four-months-a-prisoner-for--255cd2aa-7280-4eea-8144-030844e76d63Drayton, Daniel. Personal Memoir of Daniel Drayton, for Four Years and Four Months a Prisoner (for Charity's Sake) in Washington Jail: Including a Narrative of the Voyage and Capture of the Schooner Pearl. Lex. https://lex-books.com/book/personal-memoir-of-daniel-drayton-for-four-years-and-four-months-a-prisoner-for--255cd2aa-7280-4eea-8144-030844e76d63.
