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Ona Judge's story always catches people off guard — what strikes you most about it?
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2026-05-22 23:47:56
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230 years ago this week, Ona Judge walked out of George Washington's household while he was at a dinner party. She spent the rest of her life free in New Hampshire and turned down Washington's offer of post-mortem manumission with what amounts to the most concise rejection of paternalism on record. The part that gets me: Washington was rotating his enslaved household staff before the 6-month mark to circumvent Pennsylvania's abolition law. The President. Deliberately scheduling human beings around a legal loophole. History is much more useful when it's specific like this rather than abstract. What do you find most surprising or overlooked about the founding era when you dig into the details?
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