Never Caught

Narrated by:
Robin Miles

Unabridged Audiobook

Ratings
Book
27
Narrator
10
Release Date
February 2017
Duration
6 hours 46 minutes
Summary
A startling and eye-opening look into America’s First Family, Never Caught is the powerful story about a daring woman of “extraordinary grit” (The Philadelphia Inquirer).

When George Washington was elected president, he reluctantly left behind his beloved Mount Vernon to serve in Philadelphia, the temporary seat of the nation’s capital. In setting up his household he brought along nine slaves, including Ona Judge. As the President grew accustomed to Northern ways, there was one change he couldn’t abide: Pennsylvania law required enslaved people be set free after six months of residency in the state. Rather than comply, Washington decided to circumvent the law. Every six months he sent the slaves back down south just as the clock was about to expire.

Though Ona Judge lived a life of relative comfort, she was denied freedom. So, when the opportunity presented itself one clear and pleasant spring day in Philadelphia, Judge left everything she knew to escape to New England. Yet freedom would not come without its costs. At just twenty-two-years-old, Ona became the subject of an intense manhunt led by George Washington, who used his political and personal contacts to recapture his property.

“A crisp and compulsively readable feat of research and storytelling” (USA TODAY), historian and National Book Award finalist Erica Armstrong Dunbar weaves a powerful tale and offers fascinating new scholarship on how one young woman risked everything to gain freedom from the famous founding father and most powerful man in the United States at the time.
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Brian D

Too much conjecture and not enough facts and details. Whole I understand it’s difficult to find primary sources, the one that counted most ( her own story) was barely referred too.

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Abraham Jackson

I love history but this book was extremely hard to listen to. The narrator made very little effort to offer any inflection in her voice even with the seemingly little dialogue the book offered. I'm not sure it would have been any more entertaining with a different narrator.

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