"She Did Not Want to be a Slave Always" : Slave Women and Resistance at Mount Vernon
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Judge, Ona, 1773-1848
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Ona Judge, often referenced by the Washingtons as Oney, was born at George Washington's Mount Vernon around 1774. She was the daughter of Betty, an enslaved seamstress living on Mansion House Farm, and Andrew Judge, a white English tailor whom Washington hired from 1772 to 1784. She received a post in the household: at age ten, she became Martha Washington’s personal maid. Like her mother, Ona was skilled at sewing, “the perfect mistress of her needle.” Also, like her mother, Ona and her younger...
