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

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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 one a type of enchained people to escape and tell her story. Ona Pass judgement on used to be 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? Sign up for Harper’s and New York Times Magazine contributor Bill Donahue as he traces the flight of The usa’s most intriguing fugitive slave.

Journalist Bill Donahue has written for Wired, The New York Times Magazine, Playboy, The Atlantic, Runner’s World, The New Yorker, and Harper’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 Noriega’s abandoned beach house in Panama, and taste-tested moonshine in the snowy Caucasus mountains of Georgia. He’s the writer 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, Best American Trip Writing, and plenty of other anthologies. He lives in rural New Hampshire, where he runs the Scriven Arts Colony.

Cover Design by Kerry Ellis.

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