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Hace 2 días · 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 · On This Day in History, May 21, 1796, Ona Judge escaped to freedom. On May 21, 1796 Ona Judge served George and Martha Washington their dinner and then slipped out a side door and escaped to freedom. Ona (also known as Oney) was born into slavery in 1773 in George Washington's estate on Mount Vernon.
Hace 4 días · Runaway Slave Ona Judge Staines. F irst lady Martha Washington enslaved more Africans than any woman of her time. When Ona (Oney) Judge, Martha’s body slave, escaped from Mount Vernon in 1796, she came to Seacoast, New Hampshire. Her amazing story is told her by researcher Evelyn Gerson for SeacoastNH.com.
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. She becomes personal servant to Lady Washington, her closest confidante and fo
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15 de may. de 2024 · 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 May 16, 2024;
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