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George Washington and the Tale of Ona Judge (REPLAY)

What a Creep

Sonia Mansfield

Entertainment News, Comedy, News, True Crime

4.5 • 1.3K Ratings

🗓️ 4 July 2025

⏱️ 63 minutes

🔗️ Recording | iTunes | RSS

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Summary

What a Creep (Replay!) 
Season 20, Episode 7
George Washington and the Tale of Ona Judge

George Washington is the “Father of Our Country” and one of American history's most revered Founding Fathers. We heard tales of how brave he was and that he could not tell a lie. He also famously refused to create a fiefdom with the office of President, which means we are not stuck with someone in office unless they are duly elected. 

Like many white people of his time, he enslaved people. This is a fact, and though not unusual in his peer group--it's not a great look for a person who is enshrined all across the United States. People want to downplay his racism and evil acts.

Listening to Bill Maher and Elon Musk minimize his actions made us realize we need to dive into one of the first President’s most heinous acts by talking about badass Ona Judge. An enslaved woman who escaped from the President’s home and remained free despite his relentless pursuit of her. 

This woman is an American hero whom everyone who truly believes in liberty and freedom needs to learn about and memorialize her contribution to history. 

Trigger Warning: Racism and slavery

Sources for this episode:
Twisted Philly Podcast
George Washington Wiki
Daily Mail
Oney Judge Wiki
Drunk History with Jen Kirkman 
Mt. Vernon.or Colonial Williamsburg, Virginia 
Caught: The Washingtons’ Relentless Pursuit of the Runaway Slave, Ona Judge by Erica Armstrong Dunbar 
Erica Armstrong Dunbar at SMUBlack Heritage Trail video
The White House Historical Association
The National Park Service
Zinn Education
ProjectBeyond the Bell Tours (Philadelphia)
Museum of the American Revolution
Ona Judge’s 1845 interview with The Liberator
History.com 
The Fugitive Slave Acts
New York Times 2015 op-ed https://www.nytimes.com/2015/02/16/opinion/george-washington-slave-catcher.html?searchResultPosition=3

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0:00.0

Welcome to What a Creep, the show with Margotonio and Sonia Mansfield, talking about creeps from the past to the present.

0:08.5

This is your quick guide to the biggest creeps, jerks, assholes, and losers, the best of the worst.

0:14.6

From two nice ladies who want the world to be a little less creepy.

0:27.3

Thank you. want the world to be a little less creepy. Welcome back to What a Creep.

0:28.7

This is Margo Donnyu.

0:29.8

And my cohort in creepitude, as always, is the amazing Sonia Mansfield.

0:34.2

Hey, Sonia.

0:35.3

Hello, my friend.

0:36.6

Hello, my friend from smoky New York City.

0:41.2

Boo.

0:43.2

To everybody up in Canada, especially in the eastern provinces, we are thinking about you. We hope those

0:50.8

fires settle themselves because it is scaring the shit out to be here in Brooklyn.

0:54.4

I'll just have to tell you. Yeah. Not fun. No, we get the, we're what we, we have this now in

1:00.7

California. It's basically, we're just like, oh good, it's fire season. This is our new thing in

1:06.1

California. So I'm sad to hear that the East Coast is now discovering fire season. That sucks. Yeah. So it's, and it's,

1:14.0

we are the podcast that doesn't talk about the weather. We are the podcast that talks about creeps from the

1:18.1

past to the present. We have, I love me history creepage. I love me an old tiny creep. I love me an out of

1:26.2

the box creep for people. And today we are covering

1:29.4

George Washington. And that's for all of you out there that think I hate white male Christian men.

1:35.0

Never heard of him. He wasn't very Christian, by the way. But anyway, we'll get to that.

1:39.8

You can find us on Facebook. We do have a basic Facebook page, but that's where most people go to

1:43.8

complain about our language. We use salty language in this program. Yeah, we do fucking deal with it.

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