CSPAN2 April 2, 2017
About 20 years ago i was doing research on my first book about africanamerican women in the north and i came across an advertisement for a hundredway, and enslaved person who had run from the president s house in philadelphia. May 1796. And i was sort of caught up looking through microfilm and old newspapers and this made me pause and i said, wait, who is this person who ran away . She was named only judge in the advertisement. I thought, wait a minute, i dont know this person and that was troubleing to me. This miss area of expertise and i had no idea who thats owny judge was. And there was s...