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Andrew Judge was Ona Judge’s father. An English-born white man who traveled to America in July of 1772 as an indentured servant—likely to escape difficult circumstances or even a prison sentence back in England—Judge soon found himself in the employ of George Washington at the man’s vast Mount Vernon estate in Virginia. Judge became a trusted and respected tailor, making fine clothes for the most important occasions in Washington’s life. While it is unclear whether Judge carried on a genuine, prolonged love affair with one of the Washingtons’ slaves, Betty, or whether Judge raped Betty, what is clear is that Judge fathered Betty’s daughter Ona and gave the child his last name. Judge did not feel indebted or bound to his child or to Mount Vernon, however, and by the 1780s, he’d left the estate for a property of his own.
Andrew Judge Quotes in Never Caught
The Never Caught quotes below are all either spoken by Andrew Judge or refer to Andrew Judge . For each quote, you can also see the other characters and themes related to it (each theme is indicated by its own dot and icon, like this one:
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Chapter 1 Quotes
The business of slavery received every new enslaved baby with open arms, no matter the circumstances of conception.
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Ona Judge learned valuable lessons from both of her parents. From her mother she would learn the power of perseverance. From her father, Judge would learn that the decision to free oneself trumped everything, no matter who was left behind.
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Andrew Judge Character Timeline in Never Caught
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Chapter 1
Now, in 1773, Betty gives birth to another child, Ona Maria Judge, whose father, Andrew Judge , is an English-born white man and indentured servant who works as a tailor at...
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