sentences:  Both Hercules and Judge eluded capture.Washington's search for a new chef to replace Hercules in 1797 is the last known instance in which he considered buying a slave, despite his resolve "never to become the Master of another Slave by purchase"; in the end he chose to hire a white chef.Historian Joseph Ellis writes that Washington did not favor the continuation of legal slavery, and adds "[n]or did he ever embrace the racial arguments for black inferiority that Jefferson advanced...He saw slavery as the culprit, preventing the development of diligence and responsibility that would emerge gradually and naturally after emancipation."