The Escapes of David George: An Odyssey of Slavery, Freedom, and the American Revolution

"Gregory E. O’Malley’s The Escapes of David George is a gripping, novelistic study of the remarkable man whose life forces all of us to reexamine the realities of colonial slavery and the conflicted legacies of the American Revolution." --Henry Louis Gates, Jr.

"remarkable ... intriguing ... an inspiring portrait of an enslaved man" --The Wall Street Journal

When most Americans think of slavery, they do not picture the colonial or revolutionary eras. Yet, in fact, one of six inhabitants of t...