Never Caught
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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 20171. 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, the capitol of the newly-formed United States, in 17961.
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, the capitol of the newly-formed United States, in 1796.
Critical reception
David N. Gellman said in the Journal of Southern History, “The book aims for a popular audience. Points of contention are confined to the citations, and overt academic theorizing is avoided. The author does not stake out explicit positions on the ever-growing historiographical debates on slavery, the Revolution, the founders, and the Constitution; she also does not attempt a comprehensive assessment of Washington and slavery, either in comparison with other founders or on Washington's own terms.” Meanwhile, Shana L. Haines wrote in an online review that Ona Judge, a “woman whose safety and freedom in eighteenth-century America depended upon remaining hidden”, had “finally given prominence in her own story rather than as aside to the Washingtons”. Matt Damsker, from USA Today, commented: “The Ona Judge saga is a well-known matter of human bondage and presidential history, but Dunbar’s book is touted as the first full-length account of Judge’s life. Even for those who know the basics, Never Caught is a crisp and compulsively readable feat of research and storytelling.” Kirkus Reviews had a comment on the book: “A startling, well-researched slave narrative that seriously questions the intentions of our first president.”
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