History Class Module 2

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The Fugitive

Ten Dollars Re ward.

ABSCONDED from the hou{ehold of the Prcfi-dent ,,f the Unicetl ',itates, on Saturaay after­ noon, ONEY JrJDGi!, a light Mulatto girl. much freckled, with very Lb,k <!Y<l'I, and bufhy hluk hair-She is of middle flature, buc flcnder and dtl1- cately mac\e, about 10 yc.1r� uf age. She Jaias many changes ol ve, y gourl clet1"t!s of all fort•, but they are not fulficiently rernllected to rldcribe

As thue was 00 fufpicion of hr:• going off, al'!cl it hlppetlt'.d without th1 leall pr'.)vocauon, 1t i, not eary to co11jeclur& whither fhe j5 j<Orlct-•'r fuilr, what her d,•flgn i,; but::., !he nuy attempt to tfcape by watcl', ail mailer; of vdTels anci otht:ri arc C,1uti- 011ed agaiufl receiving h�r on bc,ard , altho' fhe may, and prnb�hly will cr:dec1vour to p!lfs for ii free won1n1, a�td it i, faik\ h�., wherewith.i.l to pay her pa{fage.

Tern dollars will be paidtoanyperf.,n,(white or black) who will brinr, her home, if taken in the citv,or ou h.iani anyveffd in the harbo1-1r; and a fu;thc.r r¢afonahle fu111 ii ::ipp1 ehc11<lL<l and browght home, from, gre .lter di fl:auct!, aud in prop1,rcic,11 to the ditlance. FR.E.u. KITT, Stc,vard.

May_ �4 II'.'

Ona Judge's runaway advertisement in Claypoole's American Daily Advertiser, May 25, 1796.

Source: Erica Armstrong Dunbar, Never Caught: The Washingtons' Relentless Pursuit of their Runaway Slave, Ona Judge. New York: Atria Press, 2017.