Founding Fugitive
Published by mr.president February 28th, 2008 in PRESIDENTS OF THE UNITED STATES, AMERICAN HISTORY, AMERICAN PRESIDENTS, PRESIDENTIAL HISTORIAN, PRESIDENTIAL HOMES, UNITED STATES HISTORY, WHITE HOUSE HISTORY, US PRESIDENTS, PRESIDENTIAL HISTORY, PRESIDENTIAL SITES, HISTORY IN THE NEWS, AFRICAN AMERICAN HISTORY, GEORGE WASHINGTONPhiladelphia Freedom 
Philadelphia is recognising a George Washington slave who escaped while he lived in the city. Oney Judge was one of nine slaves the Father of Our country brought with him to the nation’s first capitol, and one of two who escaped. Their experiences have been in the news with the excavation of The President’s House site in Independence Square.
Judge lived the remainder of her life a fugitive in New Hampshire.
