Never caught : the Washingtons' relentless pursuit of their runaway slave, Ona Judge
Erica Armstrong Dunbar (Author)
When George and Martha Washington moved from Mount Vernon in Virginia to Philadelphia, then the seat of the nation's capital, they took nine enslaved people with them. There was a Pennsylvania law requiring slaveholders to free their slaves after six months of residency in the state. Washington sought to circumvent the law by sending his slaves south every six months, thereby resetting the clock. Among the slaves to figure out this subterfuge was Ona "Oney" Judge, Martha Washington's chief attendant. Ona Judge risked everything she knew, and left behind everyone she had known her entire life, and fled north. This is the story of Ona Judge's quest for freedom and of George Washington's determination to recapture her
Print Book, English, 2017
First 37 Ink/Atria books hardcover edition
37 Ink/Atria, New York, 2017