Dunbar also details the unique challenges that Judge faced as a slave in the Washingtons' household, including the pressure to conform to the expectations of her powerful and demanding owners. This includes information about the daily life of enslaved people, including backbreaking labor, cruel punishments, and the constant threat of being sold to another plantation.
The beginning of the book depicts Ona Judge and her life as a slave in the household of George and Martha Washington. The book chronicles the life of Ona Judge, an enslaved woman owned by George and Martha Washington, and her escape from the President's household in Philadelphia in 1796. Never Caught: The Washingtons' Relentless Pursuit of Their Runaway Slave, Ona Judge is a non-fiction book by American historian Erica Armstrong Dunbar, published in 2017. So, when the opportunity presented itself one clear and pleasant spring day in Philadelphia, Judge left everything she knew to escape to New England.2017 non-fiction book by Erica Armstrong Dunbar Though Ona Judge lived a life of relative comfort, she was denied freedom.
Every six months he sent the slaves back down south just as the clock was about to expire. Rather than comply, Washington decided to circumvent the law. As the President grew accustomed to Northern ways, there was one change he couldn?t abide: Pennsylvania law required enslaved people be set free after six months of residency in the state. In setting up his household he brought along nine slaves, including Ona Judge. When George Washington was elected president, he reluctantly left behind his beloved Mount Vernon to serve in Philadelphia, the temporary seat of the nation?s capital. Read / Download Never Caught: The Washingtons' Relentless Pursuit of Their Runaway Slave, Ona JudgeĭESCRIPTION BOOK : A startling and eye-opening look into America?s First Family, Never Caught is the powerful story about a daring woman of ?extraordinary grit? (The Philadelphia Inquirer).
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