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Oney Judge. Ona " Oney " Judge Staines ( c. 1773 – February 25, 1848) was an enslaved biracial woman who was owned by the Washington family, first at the family's plantation at Mount Vernon and later, after George Washington became president, at the President's House in Philadelphia, then the nation's capital city. [1] .
- Eliza Staines, Nancy Staines, Will Staines
- Jack Staines
- Austin (half-brother), Tom Davis (half-brother), Betty Davis (half-sister), Delphy (half-sister)
22 de dic. de 2021 · Oney Judge was the enslaved personal attendant of Martha Custis Washington when she ran away from the President’s House in Philadelphia in 1796. Born about 1773 at Mount Vernon, Judge began laboring in the mansion when she was ten years old.
More is known about Oney Judge than any other Mount Vernon slave because she lived to an old age, and she was interviewed by abolitionist newspapers in the nineteenth century. Oney (born c. 1773) was a dower slave, the daughter of Betty, a seamstress, and Andrew Judge, a white English tailor who was an indentured servant at Mount Vernon in the ...
Ona Judge’s determination to escape slavery eclipsed any regret over leaving. As one interviewer noted: “When asked if she is not sorry she left Washington, as she has labored so much harder since, than before, her reply is, ‘No, I am free, and have, I trust been made a child of God by the means.’” 19 Ona Judge Staines died in 1848.
11 de mar. de 2018 · Ona “Oney” Judge (1773-1848) As a former slave in George Washington’s household, Ona “Oney” Judge is best remembered for her escape to New Hampshire. Born at Mount Vernon, the Washingtons’ Virginia plantation, around 1773 (exact date not known) to an indentured servant named Andrew Judge and a slave name Betty, Ona “Oney” Judge ...
Resource. Life Story: Ona Judge (1774–1848) Self-Emancipated from the Presidential Mansion. The story of a Black woman who emancipated herself from George and Martha Washington. Print Page. Absconded from the household of the President of the United States, Oney Judge.
6 de feb. de 2017 · That liberation did not apply to Ona Judge, one of 153 slaves held by Martha Washington. But Judge, it turned out, evaded the Washingtons’ dogged (and sometimes illegal) efforts to recapture...
