John Dumont

Her final master, John Dumont , had promised to free her, and had gone back on his word. On this, she said, God told her it was all right for her to escape, and she...

It is a mystery why ST took only one child with her, leaving three others in slavery, and why she continued in later years to express attachment to John Dumont . Some biographers have suspected...

At least one reviewer of Washington's book worried about the effect of this theory in normalizing and sanitizing ST 's relationship with John Dumont .

Whether or not ST was the object of sexual violence in this household, the persecuting white mistress mentioned in her Narrative, it emerges, was not John Dumont 's first wife, Sally , but her...