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Caption: Paul Jennings & Daniel Drayton
Additional Description: Paul Jennings, a butler belonging to Senator Daniel Webster and once owned by President James Madison; freeman Daniel Bell; and Samuel Edmonston, a "hired-out" slave and brother to Mary and Emily, organized the Pearl escape. Of the white crew, Daniel Drayton and Captain Edward Sayres, served four years in prison for the escape; most of the captured fugitives were sold in New Orleans.

Daniel Drayton from Personal Memoir, 1855 (Internet Archive). Paul Jennings by E. C. Perry Photograph Company (Library of Congress)
Submitted: March 31, 2021, by Allen C. Browne of Silver Spring, Maryland.
Database Locator Identification Number: p576432
File Size: 1.359 Megabytes

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