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In April 1848, the largest slave escape attempt on record in the Unites States took place at the Southwest Waterfront, where seventy-seven men, women, and children boarded the schooner Pearl to sail to freedom but were ultimately recaptured. The waterfront continued to play a role in antislavery activities of the Underground Railroad, with the Sixth Street wharf serving as a meeting place from which slaves embarked for the north.
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