the sculptor Erik Blome was installed at Edmonson Plaza at 1701 Duke Street in Alexandria, next to the site that was Bruin & Hill's slave-holding facility (now a private office). Other representation 1992, Judlyne A. Lilly's play The Pearl, which drew on the writings of John H. Paynter (a descendant of one of the Pearl fugitives), was given its première by The Source Theatre in Washington, D.C. See also Fugitive slave laws List of slaves References Further reading Debby Applegate, The Most Famous Man in America: The Biography of Henry Ward Beecher (Doubleday, June 2006) Stanley Harrold, Subversives: Antislavery Community in Washington, D.C., 1828-1865 (Baton Rouge: Louisiana State University Press, 2003) Mary Kay Ricks, "A Passage to Freedom," Washington Post Magazine (February 17, 2002) Hilary Russell, "Underground Railroad Activists in Washington, D.C.", Washington History 13. no. 2 (Fall/Winter 2002): pp. 38–39. Activists for African-American civil rights African-American abolitionists 19th-century American slaves People from Sandy Spring, Maryland People from Alexandria, Virginia Sister duos 1832 births 1853 deaths 1835 births 1895 deaths 19th-century American women Women civil rights activists American freedmen 19th-century African-American women Slave trade in the United States