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Have students write and record podcasts about each individual, to be shared via your school’s website. Finally, draw upon some of the online resources below as well as the expertise of your school and local librarian to find other digital sources. Provide students with a few copies of Carla Killough McClafferty’s Buried Lives: The Enslaved People of George Washington’s Mount Vernon and Gretchen Woelfle’s Answering the Cry of Freedom: Stories of African Americans and the American Revolution, to see if they can find chapters on their subjects.

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While Never Caught focuses on Ona Judge, what other free and enslaved African Americans mentioned in the book do your students want to learn more about? Have students make a list, and then examine the back matter to see if they can find online source material to learn more. Įxploring Ona’s African American Contemporaries. You may also want to read her original version of the book, the National Book Award finalist Never Caught: The Washington’s Relentless Pursuit of their Runaway Slave Ona Judge. Vernon, her interview on WBUR radio, watch her Cooper Union address, and read some of the other sources that she mentions in her interviews, included in the Further Explorations section below. To learn more about the lives of free and enslaved African Americans in the 18th and early 19th centuries, and the process of doing history, listen to the podcast of Erica Armstrong Dunbar’s conversation at Mt. She wants you to read this book, to use this book and others like it in your classroom. In the introduction to this book, author and historian Erica Armstrong Dunbar states that she wrote the book not just for middle grade students, but for their teachers. Ideal for biography genre study as well as explorations of the Black Freedom Movement and the American Revolution, Never Caught can play many roles in middle grade language arts and social studies classrooms. As Martha Washington’s personal maid, Judge, a skillful seamstress, had access to fine clothes, trips to the theater, and the chance to travel beyond Mt. Vernon estate, 18th century Philadelphia, the Washingtons’ efforts to prevent the enslaved men and women in their household from taking advantage of Pennsylvania’s Act of the Gradual Abolition of Slavery, and the intricate and intimate ways in which the personal lives of George and Martha Washington and the enslaved men and women they owned were tangled together. A chronological narrative of Judge’s life continues, one that weaves in details about the everyday lives of enslaved men, women, and children on Washington’s Mt.

After an engaging author’s note from Dunbar that invites middle grade readers and teachers into Judge’s story, an action-packed introduction details the moment of her escape the evening of May 21, 1796.

How did this come to be? Historian and professor Erica Armstrong Dunbar and middle grade author Kathleen Van Cleve collaborate on the adaptation of Dunbar’s 2017 National Book Award Finalist, Never Caught: The Washingtons Relentless Pursuit of their Runaway Slave, Ona Judge, to bring this incredible life into the classroom. Never Caught, the Young Readers Edition, concludes with the assertion that by 1845, Ona Maria Judge Staines, Martha Washington’s self-emancipated former personal maid, “understood that by seeking and claiming her own freedom from the grotesquerie that is slavery, she had propped open the door to freedom itself” (p. Published by Aladdin Books, Simon and Schuster, 2019 Written by Erica Armstrong Dunbar and Kathleen Van Cleve Never Caught: The Story of Ona Judge, George and Martha Washington’s Courageous Slave Who Dared to Run Away

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