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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. 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.
Ona Judge Staines (c. 1773 – February 25, 1848), also known as Oney Judge, was an enslaved person owned by the Washington family, first at the family's plantation at Mount Vernon and later, after George Washington became president, at the President's House in Philadelphia, then the nation's capital city. [1]
Erica Armstrong Dunbar is an American historian at Emory University.She was previously a distinguished Charles and Mary Beard Professor of History at Rutgers.An historian of African American women and the antebellum United States, Dunbar is the author of A Fragile Freedom: African American Women and Emancipation in the Antebellum City (2008) and Never Caught: The Washingtons’ Relentless ...
By the time of Washington's death in 1799 there were 317 enslaved people at Mount Vernon. 124 were owned outright by Washington, 40 were rented, and the remainder were dower slaves owned by the estate of Martha Washington's first husband, Daniel Parke Custis, on behalf of their grandchildren. Washington's will was widely published upon his ...
Hercules Posey (c. 1748 – May 15, 1812) was a slave owned by George Washington, at his plantation Mount Vernon in Virginia. "Uncle Harkless," as he was called by George Washington Parke Custis, served as chief cook at the Mansion House for many years.
For publishers, Donald Trump's presidential years were a time of extraordinary sales in political books, helped in part by Trump's legal threats and angered tweets.
William Lee (c. 1750 [1] – 1810 [2]) was an American slave and personal assistant of George Washington.He was the only one of Washington's slaves who was freed immediately by Washington's will.
Deborah Squash (born c. 1763 –?) was a slave on George Washington's Mount Vernon plantation before she escaped in 1781. She went to New Amsterdam, which was the headquarters for the British during the American Revolution. At the end of the war, she was one of the 3,000 blacks in the Book of Negroes that sailed on a British ship for Nova Scotia.