Carl’s Reviews > Never Caught: The Washingtons' Relentless Pursuit of Their Runaway Slave, Ona Judge > Status Update

A fascinating and tense story. The fact of slavery still raises such disbelief: how could purportedly decent civilized people have ever believed this “peculiar institution” was anything but a moral abomination?

>Potential spoiler< It’s especially surprising to learn that they knew where she was almost the whole time she was in New Hampshire. Fortunately, their first gesture at recapture was not a brutal one.