New York Times features Presidents' Day op-ed piece by MMUF PhD Erica Armstrong Dunbar

February 16, 2015

The New York Times' lead op-ed piece for Presidents' Day is an examination of George Washington's status as a slaveholder and the lengths to which he went to maintain that status, including a protracted effort to return to captivity Ona Judge, a former slave of Washington's who escaped to join a community of free blacks in New Hampshire. Read the piece here:

http://www.nytimes.com/2015/02/16/opinion/george-washington-slave-catcher.html?hp&action=click&pgtype=Homepage...