Ona Judge learned she was to be given away as a wedding gift. She had other plans. She slipped out of the Presidential Mansion in Philadelphia, emancipated herself, and made her way north — eventually settling in New Hampshire, where she lived the rest of her life as a free woman.
Runaway: The Daring Escape of Ona Judge, written in verse by Ray Anthony Shepard and illustrated by Keith Mallett, tells her true story as poetry — spare, powerful, and made to be read aloud.
Join the Education Programs team in the Interpretive Center to hear it and learn more about the woman who walked away from George and Martha Washington.
Recommended for second grade and up, but all ages are welcome