Ona Judge: The Woman Who Bested George Washington

How a young woman outsmarted and outlasted the wealth and power of the first United States President

Mary DeVries
History of Women
Published in
12 min readJan 31, 2022

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Beautiful Black woman with freckles
Not Ona Judge, but she may have looked a little bit like this beautiful woman. Photo by vision perspective from Pexels

Absconded from the household of the President of the United States on Staurday afternoon, ONEY JUDGE, a light Mulatto girl, much freckled, with very black eyes, and bushy black hair — She is of middle stature, but…

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Mary DeVries
History of Women

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