![]() ![]() She boarded a ship and was taken on a five-day journey to Portsmouth, Large community of free blacks in Philadelphia, Judge stored herīelongings with someone before fleeing the president’s house. Mount Vernon, she packed her belongings as well. Washingtons’ account and, as the family got ready for a trip back to She bought herself a new pair of shoes on the Judge (also called Oney) prepared for her escape with some careful Martha Washington went in attempting to recapture her. Recounts Judge’s remarkable life and the lengths to which George and “And she would never return to that home.”ĭunbar tells Judge’s story in a new book, Never Caught, Professor of Black American Studies and History at the University ofĭelaware. “She ran away from the president’s house while the Washingtons wereĮating dinner,” said Dunbar, who is the Blue and Gold Distinguished Historian Erica Armstrong Dunbar calls “that final step” toward freedom. George Washington’s official residence in Philadelphia - took what ![]() May 21, 1796, when a young woman named Ona Judge - a slave in President ![]() African American Public Humanities Ph.D. ![]()
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