Ona Judge lives in four different states during her life: Virginia, New York, Pennsylvania, and New Hampshire. What is each state’s policy toward slavery, and how does this contribute to Judge’s ease or difficulty in navigating the state? What key life lessons does Judge learn in each of the states?

What role does speculation play in Dunbar’s text? What does she make educated guesses about, and for what purpose?

According to Never Caught, in what ways is Ona Judge’s experience representative of the conditions of slavery at that time? In what ways is her situation different? What accounts for these differences?