The Slave Who Outwitted George Washington

The Washington Family, by Edward Savage, c. 1789 / Wikimedia

"For most black women who toiled as domestic slaves or servants, their bodies were broken, and their time was never their own."
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"Washington wrote that if his slaves knew that they had a right to freedom, it would ‘make them insolent in the State of Slavery."
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"If Judge ever believed that her close and intimate responsibilities for her owner yielded preferential treatment, she now understood better."
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In Search of the Slave Who Defied George Washington

Erica Armstrong Dunbar, the author of “Never Caught: The Washingtons’ Relentless Pursuit of Their Runaway Slave, Ona Judge,” at George Washington’s estate in Mount Vernon, Va. 
Credit Justin T. Gellerson for The New York Times

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Ona Judge Staines, the Fugitive Slave Who Outwitted George Washington

Washington and His Slaves

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