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3 de may. de 2024 · Oney Judge, who was an especially talented seamstress, and Hercules Posey escaped in 1796 and 1797 respectively and eluded recapture. Washington took seriously the recapture of these brave fugitives, and in three cases enslaved people who had escaped were sold off in the West Indies after recapture, effectively a death sentence in the severe ...
3 de may. de 2024 · Two of the household’s most favored enslaved servants, Martha Washington’s personal maid, Oney Judge, and the chef, Hercules, ran away from the Washingtons despite their privileged positions. Judge said that she fled because of her “thirst for compleat freedom.”
Hace 1 día · Once Washington's slave, Ona Judge was free --and a fugitive -- for the rest of her life. By Julia Ann Weekes NHWeekend Editor; May 15, 2024 May 15, 2024 Updated 6 hrs ago;
1 de may. de 2024 · Oney Judge is a slave. But on the plantation of Mount Vernon, the beautiful home of George and Martha Washington, she is not called a slave. She is referred to as a servant, and a house servant at that -- a position of influence and respect.
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Hace 6 días · During the fall of 1796, George Washington's final months in office, Ona Judge Staines, a slave belonging to the First Family, escaped the Executive Mansion in Philadelphia (equivalent to today's White House) and made her way to Portsmouth, New Hampshire.
19 de abr. de 2024 · NEW YORK, April 18 (Reuters) - Lawyers in Donald Trump's historic criminal trial on Thursday selected 12 jurors who will assess his guilt or innocence over the coming weeks in a case stemming from...
Hace 3 días · Could this broken tombstone under a tree in Greenland, NH be the final restingplace of Oney (Ona) Judge Staines? Enslaved by George and Martha Washington, Oney escaped the opulent Mount Vernon in Virginia to a life of quiet poverty in rural New Hampshire in 1796.
