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Author
Publisher
Aladdin
Pub. Date
[2019]
Language
English
Description
"A National Book Award Finalist for Non-Fiction, Never Caught is the eye-opening narrative of Ona Judge, George and Martha Washington's runaway slave, who risked everything for freedom. Now in a Young Readers Edition"--
In this incredible narrative, Erica Armstrong Dunbar reveals a fascinating and heartbreaking behind-the-scenes look at the Washingtons' when they were the First Family-and an in-depth look at their slave, Ona Judge, who dared to escape...
Author
Publisher
Charlesbridge
Pub. Date
2013.
Language
English
Description
One May night in 1861, three slaves escaped a Confederate camp and rowed across the harbor to the Union line. Frank Baker, James Townsend, and Shepard Mallory didn't know what they would find across the water, but they knew it had to be better than what they left behind. Union General Benjamin Butler considered the men's plight. The Fugitive Slave Act required him to return the runaways to their master. But what if they were declared "contraband...
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