{"product_id":"never-caught-the-washingtons-relentless-pursuit-of-their-runaway-slave-ona-judge-paperback","title":"Never Caught: The Washingtons' Relentless Pursuit of Their Runaway Slave, Ona Judge - Paperback","description":"\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cp style=\"text-align: right;\"\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/reportcopyrightinfringement.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003e\u003cb\u003eReport copyright infringement\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eErica Armstrong Dunbar\u003c\/b\u003e (Author)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eA 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). 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. In setting up his household he brought along nine slaves, including Ona Judge. 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. Rather than comply, Washington decided to circumvent the law. Every six months he sent the slaves back down south just as the clock was about to expire. Though Ona Judge lived a life of relative comfort, she was denied freedom. So, when the opportunity presented itself one clear and pleasant spring day in Philadelphia, Judge left everything she knew to escape to New England. Yet freedom would not come without its costs. 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. \"A crisp and compulsively readable feat of research and storytelling\" (USA TODAY), historian and National Book Award finalist Erica Armstrong Dunbar weaves a powerful tale and offers fascinating new scholarship on how one young woman risked everything to gain freedom from the famous founding father and most powerful man in the United States at the time.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003eErica Armstrong Dunbar is a historian and professor of African American studies at Emory University. Her first book was \u003ci\u003eA Fragile Freedom: African American Women and Emancipation in the Antebellum City\u003c\/i\u003e. Her second book, \u003ci\u003eNever Caught: The Washingtons' Relentless Pursuit of Their Runaway Slave, Ona Judge\u003c\/i\u003e was a finalist for the National Book Award in nonfiction and a winner of the Frederick Douglass Book Award. She is also the author of \u003ci\u003eShe Came to Slay\u003c\/i\u003e, an illustrated tribute to Harriet Tubman, and \u003ci\u003eSusie King Taylor\u003c\/i\u003e and is the coexecutive producer of the HBO series \u003ci\u003eThe Gilded Age\u003c\/i\u003e.\u003c\/p\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 288\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0.7 x 8.4 x 5.5 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e January 09, 2018\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \n                \u003cdiv\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eAccelerated Reader:\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\n                \n                \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eQuiz Name:\u003c\/strong\u003e Never Caught, the Story of Ona Judge: George and Martha Washington's Courageous Slave Who Dared to R\u003c\/div\u003e\n                \n                \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eInterest Level:\u003c\/strong\u003e Middle Grades, 4-8\u003c\/div\u003e\n                \n                \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eReading Level:\u003c\/strong\u003e 7.9\u003c\/div\u003e\n                \n                \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePoint Value:\u003c\/strong\u003e 8\u003c\/div\u003e\n                \n            ","brand":"BooksCloud","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":53269564195113,"sku":"9781501126413","price":25.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0916\/4960\/5929\/files\/c_eNdWuwPB9781501126413.webp?v=1781622018","url":"https:\/\/www.thescholarssourcebookstore.co\/products\/never-caught-the-washingtons-relentless-pursuit-of-their-runaway-slave-ona-judge-paperback","provider":"The Scholar's Source","version":"1.0","type":"link"}