SOCIAL SCIENCES

Never Caught: The Washingtons' Relentless Pursuit of Their Runaway Slave, Ona Judge

by Erica Armstrong Dunbar

Atria. Feb. 2017. 272p. ISBN 9781501126390. $26; ebk. ISBN 9781501126437. BIOG

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Judge, a 22-year-old enslaved woman owned by George Washington, escaped in 1796 from the president's temporary home in Philadelphia, then the seat of the new American government, to freedom in New England. (LJ 12/16)

Reviewed by Molly McArdle , Jan 01, 2017

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