Runaway: The Daring Escape of Ona Judge - Hardcover

Shepard, Ray Anthony

 
9780374307042: Runaway: The Daring Escape of Ona Judge
Hardcover
ISBN 10: 0374307040 ISBN 13: 9780374307042
Verlag: Farrar, Straus & Giroux Inc, 2021

Inhaltsangabe

Ona Judge was enslaved by the Washingtons, and served the President's wife, Martha. Ona was widely known for her excellent skills as a seamstress, and was raised alongside Washington’s grandchildren. Indeed, she was frequently mistaken for his granddaughter. This biography follows her childhood and adolescence until she decides to run away. This book doesn’t shy away from the horrors of slavery, nor the complex role of house servants. Author Ray Anthony Shepard implicates the reader in Ona’s decision to emancipate herself by using a rhetorical refrain, “Why you run, Ona Judge?” This haunting meditation welcomes meaningful and necessary conversation among readers. Illustrator Keith Mallett’s rich paintings include fabric collage and add further feeling and majesty to Ona’s daring escape.

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Über die Autorin bzw. den Autor

Ray Anthony Shepard is a former teacher and retired editor-in-chief of a major education publishing company. He is a graduate of the University of Nebraska College of Education and the Harvard Graduate School Education where he received a Martin Luther King Jr. Fellowship from the Woodrow Wilson Foundation. rayanthonyshepard.com Keith Mallett was born in Pennsylvania and received his formal art training at the Art Students League, and Hunter College in New York City. He has worked as a freelance artist for fifteen years and was the in-house artist for Frontline Art Publishers. Keith's work is currently published by Canadian Art Prints, one of the largest fine art publishers in the world. keithmallett.com

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Verlag
Farrar, Straus & Giroux Inc
Erscheinungsdatum
2021
Sprache
Englisch
ISBN 10 
0374307040
ISBN 13 
9780374307042
Einband
Tapa dura
Zeichner
Mallett Keith
Anzahl der Seiten
40
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