George Washington and the Tale of Ona Judge

What a Creep

Margo Donohue

True Crime, Entertainment News, News, Comedy

4.6 • 1.2K Ratings

🗓️ 9 June 2023

⏱️ 63 minutes

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What a CreepSeason 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.org
Colonial Williamsburg, Virginia video
Never Caught: The Washingtons’ Relentless Pursuit of the Runaway Slave, by Erica Armstrong Dunbar
Erica Armstrong Dunbar at SMU
Black Heritage Trail video
The White House Historical Association
The National Park Service
Zinn Education Project Beyond 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 Marco Donio and Sonia Mansfield talking about
0:06.2	creeps from the past to the present.
0:09.0	This is your quick guide to the biggest creeps, jerks, assholes and losers, the best of the
0:13.6	worst.
0:14.6	From two nice ladies who want the world to be a little less creepy.
0:27.8	Welcome back to What a Creep, this is Marco Donio and my cohort in creepitude as always
0:32.1	is the amazing Sonia Mansfield.
0:34.3	Hey Sonia, hello my friend, hello my friend from Smoky New York City.
0:43.6	To everybody up in Canada, especially in the Eastern provinces, we are thinking about
0:49.9	you.
0:50.9	We hope those fires settle themselves because it is scaring this shit out of me here in
0:54.0	Brooklyn.
0:55.0	I'll just have to tell you.
0:56.0	Yeah.
0:57.4	No, we get that we're what we have this now in California.
1:01.5	It's basically we're just like, Oh, good, it's fire season.
1:04.9	This is our new thing in California.
1:07.0	So I'm sad to hear that the East Coast is now discovering fire season.
1:11.5	That sucks.
1:12.5	Yeah.
1:13.5	And it's we are the podcast that doesn't talk about the weather.
1:15.8	We are the podcast that talks about creeps from the past to the present.
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