Book description
Based on an extraordinary true story, this young adult novel follows an young enslaved woman’s struggle to take what is rightfully hers.
When I was four and my daddy left, I cried, but I understood. He had become part of the Gone.
Oney Judge is a slave. But on…
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1 author picked Taking Liberty as one of their favorite books. Why do they recommend it?
This young adult novel, based on a real person, focuses on the complex relationships between enslaved people and those that claimed them as property.
The real Oney Judge’s escape from President George Washington’s Philadelphia home so angered the founding father that he never stopped trying to recapture her. He couldn’t understand why she’d left because, in his eyes, she’d been treated like a member of the family.
I’m familiar with Oney’s story, but I loved hearing it from her point of view (as envisioned by author Rinaldi). I’m an Ann Rinaldi fan—she wrote dozens of works of historical fiction. She…
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