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📚🎨 #ArtIsAWeapon #WomansHistoryMonth #OnaJudge #NowReading "Never Caught: The Washingtons' Relentless Pursuit of Their Runaway Slave, Ona Judge" by #EricaArmstrongDunbar. www.ericaarmstrongdunbar.com. • "A startling and eye-opening look into America’s First Family, Never Caught is the powerful narrative of Ona Judge, George and Martha Washington’s runaway slave who risked it all to escape the nation’s capital and reach freedom. When George Washington was elected president, he reluctantly left behind his beloved Mount Vernon to serve in New York and then Philadelphia, the temporary seat of the nation’s capital. In setting up his household he took Tobias Lear, his celebrated secretary, and nine slaves, including Ona Judge, about which little has been written. As he grew accustomed to Northern ways, there was one change he couldn’t get his arms around: Pennsylvania law required enslaved people be set free after six months of residency in the state. Rather than comply, Washington decided to circumvent the law. Every six months he sent the slaves back down south or out of the state, just as the clock was about to expire... At just twenty-two-years-old, Ona became the subject of an intense manhunt led by George Washington, who used his political and personal contacts to recapture his property." • • I hope Judge's remarkable story as told by Armstrong Dunbar is adapted into a #featurefilm or #documentary. (I have seen this silly, six-minute @drunkhistory episode: https://youtu.be/bqzUI1ihfpk .) • • (Slide ⬅️) #Illustration of Oney "Ona" Judge by Adriana Bellet aka @JeezVanilla for @broadly/@vice - www.vice.com/en_us/article/bj5nj5/oney-judge-escaped-enslavement-by-george-washington • • #OnaJudge #OneyJudge #GeorgeAndMarthaWashington #GeorgeWashington #FirstUSPresidentOwnedEnslavedBlackPeople #BlackHistory365 #AmericanHistory #Freedom #BlackWomen #BlackScholars #BlackWriters #TraScapades #ArtIsAWeapon https://www.instagram.com/p/B9M3stsAXeP/?igshid=5k6nfc20dve

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Can't wait to read this book on Oney Judge, the runaway slave that George Washington never stopped trying to get back. #ericaarmstrongdunbar #oneyjudge #illustration #sketch #sketchbook #leuchtturm1917 #copic #tombow #uniballdeluxemicro #uniball #pen #ink #markers #books #readinglist #art #artwork #history #life

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🎨✊🏽 #ArtIsAWeapon ❤👏🏽 #WomensHistoryMonth SALUTE AND RESPECT Oney "Ona" Judge - #illustration by @jeezvanilla for @broadly - an enslaved Black women who successfully escaped from America's first President George Washington and his wife Martha. Despite years of attempts, the smart and courageous Judge alluded the Washingtons' numerous attempts to recapture her. Read the story at Broadly.com: https://broadly.vice.com/en_us/article/bj5nj5/oney-judge-escaped-enslavement-by-george-washington I only recently learned about Judge (thanks @elmodammit), and I am now researching this fierce woman's fascinating story. I knew about Washington OWNING Black people, as did 12 other U.S. presidents - 8 of whom while in office. Yet those who uphold white-supremacy in thought and deed are incredulous when attempts are made to educate them about their hypocrisy, history, lineage, "founding fathers," or themselves. Learn more about Oney Judge: 📚 "Never Caught: The Washingtons' Relentless Pursuit of Their Runaway Slave, Ona Judge" by professor Erica Armstrong Dunbar; 📰 2.6.17 @NYTimes article: http://nyti.ms/2klrT7e #YallGoneLearnToday #OneyJudge #OnaJudge #WomensHistoryMonth #BlackHistory365 #AmericanHistory #Broadly #AdrianaBellet #EricaArmstrongDunbar #BlackScholars #JeesVanilla #Artist #illustrator #TraScapades #ArtIsAWeapon