Gregory O'Malley with The Escapes of David George

From a prize-winning historian comes a dramatic story about a Black man’s relentless search for freedom in Revolutionary-era America. Piecing together archival records and David George’s own brief account of his life? The earliest written testimony by a fugitive enslaved person in North America? Gregory O’Malley presents a thrilling narrative and unique perspective on our nation’s origins, principles, and contradictions.