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A startling and eye-opening consider America's first family, Never Caught is the powerful narrative of Ona Judge, George and Martha Washington's runaway slave who risked everything to escape the country's capital and reach freedom. When George Washington was elected leader, he reluctantly left out his beloved Mount Vernon to provide in Philadelphia, the short-term seat of the country's capital. In establishing his home, he needed Tobias Lear, his celebrated secretary, and eight slaves, including Ona Judge, about which little has been written. As he grew accustomed to Northern ways, there was one change he couldn't get his arms around: Pennsylvania regulation required enslaved people be established free after half a year of residency in the state of hawaii. Instead of comply, Washington decided to circumvent regulations. Every half a year he dispatched the slaves back down south, equally as the clock was about to expire. Though Ona Judge resided a life of relative comfort, the few pleasantries she was afforded were nothing at all compared to freedom, a glimpse of which she came across firsthand in Philadelphia. So, when the ability presented itself one cold spring day in Philadelphia, Judge kept everything she knew to escape to New Britain. Yet freedom wouldn't normally come without its costs. At just 22 years old, Ona became the main topic of an extreme manhunt led by George Washington, who used his political and personal contacts to capture his property. Impeccably researched, historian Erica Armstrong Dunbar weaves a robust tale and offers fascinating new scholarship or grant how one young girl risked everything to gain freedom from the famous founding dad.
