Runaway: How a Slave Defied America’s First President

Runaway: How a Slave Defied America’s First President (Kindle Single)

In the mid-1790s, President George Washington had well over 200 black slaves toiling for him in his home and on his sprawling Virginia plantation. Runaway introduces us to the only one of those enchained people to escape and tell her story. Ona Judge was the young personal attendant to Martha Washington. On a spring evening in 1796, she slipped out of the president's home, throwing her master and mistress into a consternation that lingered for years. Why had Ona fled, and where had she gone? Join Harper's and New York Times Magazine contributor Bill Donahue as he traces the flight of America's most intriguing fugitive slave.

Journalist Bill Donahue has written for Wired, The New York Times Magazine, Playboy, The Atlantic, Runnerâ€™s World, The New Yorker, and Harperâ€™s. In reporting stories from over 20 countries, he has searched for fallen meteorites in the Sahara Desert, biked the streets of Shanghai, snuck into Manuel Noriegaâ€™s abandoned beach house in Panama, and taste-tested moonshine in the snowy Caucasus mountains of Georgia. He is the author of The Secret World of Saints, an e-book about the Catholic Church and its saintmaking process, and his work has been reprinted in Best American Sports Writing,Â Best American Travel Writing, and many other anthologies. He lives in rural New Hampshire, where he runs the Scriven Arts Colony.

Cover Design by Kerry Ellis.
Country USA
Binding Kindle Edition
ReleaseDate 2016-06-30
Format Kindle eBook

Country	USA
Binding	Kindle Edition
ReleaseDate	2016-06-30
Format	Kindle eBook

Runaway: How a Slave Defied America’s First President (Kindle Single)

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