#GEORGE WASHINGTON RUNAWAY SLAVE BOOK FREE#

Judge Staines's freedom was continually at risk because the Washingtons used agents to find her and try to recover their 'property.' In 1799, the Washingtons came very close to success as Ona Judge Staines came face-to-face with one of their agents at her home in New Hampshire.

#GEORGE WASHINGTON RUNAWAY SLAVE BOOK FREE#

This excerpt, from Chapter 23 of the young readers edition, places readers into a tense moment in Ona Judge Staines’s (her married name) life as a free person. They provide brief historical context for each episode and try to give the reader a glimpse into Judge's mindset. Armstrong Dunbar and Van Cleve transport readers into predicaments and moments of decision that Ona Judge faced as a young person.

The younger readers edition does not lose the emotional story telling that made the 2017 version of Never Caught so popular. Armstrong Dunbar’s introductory note makes that clear. A goal of this edition is to ensure that young readers grasp the harsh reality and injustice of American slavery as they grow up to become decision makers. It features large print, short chapters, and helpful in-text definitions. Released in January 2019, the young readers edition of Never Caught is geared toward middle school-aged students and teachers. Erica Armstrong Dunbar has made Judge’s story more widely known through her 2017 publication Never Caught: The Washingtons' Relentless Pursuit of Their Runaway Slave, Ona Judge. To make Judge's story even more accessible, Armstrong Dunbar teamed up with Kathleen Van Cleve to adapt her telling of Judge’s journey to freedom into a young readers edition. Her journey to escape from the ownership of George and Martha Washington is an inspirational story of survival and determination in the face of slavery. Impeccably researched, historian Erica Armstrong Dunbar weaves a powerful tale and offers fascinating new scholarship on how one young woman risked it all to gain freedom from the famous founding father.When Ona Judge decided to run away from her enslavement at the President’s House in Philadelphia in 1796, she risked her life in search of freedom. At just twenty-two-years-old, Ona became the subject of an intense manhunt led by George Washington, who used his political and personal contacts to recapture his property.

Yet freedom would not come without its costs. So, when the opportunity presented itself one cold spring day in Philadelphia, Judge left everything she knew to escape to New England. Though Ona Judge lived a life of relative comfort, the few pleasantries she was afforded were nothing compared to freedom, a glimpse of which she encountered first-hand in Philadelphia. 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 he grew accustomed to Northern ways, there was one change he couldn't get his arms around: Pennsylvania law required enslaved people be set free after six months of residency in the state. In setting up his household he took Tobias Lear, his celebrated secretary, and eight slaves, including Ona Judge, about which little has been written. 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. Finalist for the National Book Award for Nonfiction A startling and eye-opening look into America's First Family, Never Caught is the powerful narrative of Ona Judge, George and Martha Washington's runaway slave who risked it all to escape the nation's capital and reach freedom.

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