Escape on the Pearl : the heroic bid for freedom on the Underground Railroad
- Two young girls join an audacious escape
- Washington's Underground Railroad
- Slavery in the Washington area
- Waves in Congress
- The fate of the Edmonsons
- Trials and tribulations
- More legal maneuvers; the sisters head north
- The fugitive slave act and the great protest meeting
- The struggle to free Drayton and Sayres; Mary and Emily go to Oberlin
- Emily comes home; Samuel Edmonson escapes again
- Dred Scott and the rise of Lincoln
- Freedom in the District of Columbia
- Emily and Samuel return to Washington; John is found.