Recognizing the historic abolitionist events surrounding the Pearl, and honoring its legacy in American history.

HRES 336 is a non-binding House resolution that commemorates the 1848 Pearl incident, where 77 enslaved people attempted to flee slavery in the District of Columbia and Virginia aboard a schooner. It honors the escapees, abolitionists like William Chaplin and Gerrit Smith who aided the effort, and free Black leaders Paul Jennings and Paul Edmonson, while recognizing the subsequent Washington Riot of 1848 and the event's historical significance as the largest known mass escape of enslaved people in U.S. history. The resolution specifically acknowledges how this event inspired Harriet Beecher Stowe's *Uncle Tom's Cabin*. As a symbolic gesture, it does not create new laws or affect any legal rights.