Today you can read about Ona Judge (1773-1848) in The New York Times. But the story of a young black woman who resisted a president is finally being told - and told again. Her presumed burial site remains obscure and unmarked on private land in nearby Greenland. A skilled seamstress, Ona Judge lived the rest of her long life in the shadows - impoverished, independent and defiant.
Enslaved by George and Martha Washington, a young Ona Judge fled to Portsmouth in 1796. “Melania Trump’s Reluctance Matches a FLOTUS Before Her” TIME.It’s about time America learned her name.“A Mental and Moral Feast:” Reading, Writing, and Sentimentality in Black Philadelphia” in The Journal of Women’s History (Spring 2004).” In Women’s Rights and Transatlantic Antislavery in the Era of Emancipation, edited by Kathryn Kish Sklar and James Brewer Stewart, 299-318. “Writing for True Womanhood: African American Women's Writings and the Anti-Slavery Struggle.“African-American Women and Indentured Servitude.” In The Oxford Encyclopedia of Women in World History, edited by Bonnie G.Freedom Bound: The Sesquicentennial of the Emancipation Proclamation – with Readex, a division of Newsbank.Pennsylvania Magazine of History and Biography, guest co-editor of special issue on the 150 th anniversary of the Emancipation Proclamation.“I knew that if I went back to Virginia, I should never get my liberty.” Ona Judge Staines: The President’s Runaway Slave.” In Women in Early America, 225-245, edited by Tom Foster.
New York: Atria/Simon and Schuster, September 2016.
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