If you're listening to this book, you should probably listen to a neutral palate cleanser before listening to Hamilton. Going from actual Washington to Chris Jackson is jarring.
Anyway, it's a wonderful short-but-not-little work of history that uses the Washingtons and Judge to reconstruct the complexity (and hypocrisy) of slavery in the 18th century. The book itself is cautious, indicating clearly the difference between what we can know and what we can only speculate. It's a stark reminder how little information we have even about figures like Judge who actually spoke out about their lives. And how much of that information comes from those in power who care little about the lives experiences of the powerless. Reconstructing what Judge's life would have been like is well done and I applaud the choice to emphasize the lack of information while still providing Judge with her real and complex emotional life.