Never Caught by Erica Armstrong Dunbar tells the story of Ona Judge, a woman who was enslaved from birth by George and Martha Washington. When George and Martha Washington moved to the nation’s new capitol, Philadelphia, they took numerous enslaved people with them who served as cooks, horsemen, and house servants. Ona Judge ran away and left everything and everyone she knew in search of freedom. In this essay you’ll write about this story and connect it with the larger history of period.
The story of Ona Judge is two-fold. It is both a story of her quest for freedom and that of her owners search to recapture her and deprive her of her freedom. What did freedom mean to Judge and to the Washington’s? How did these competing visions of freedom represent the paradox of American liberty? You should use specific examples from Never Caught and context from course lectures and your textbook to support your answer.
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