Joseph Whipple was the customs officer in Portsmouth, New Hampshire when Ona Judge arrived there in 1796. George Washington himself appointed Whipple to the post in 1789. In the fall of 1796, Washington entreated Whipple to find Ona Judge in Portsmouth and convince her to return to Virginia. Whipple put out a fake call for a domestic helper in order to interview Ona—but when she caught wise to his ruse, she was able to evade his attempts to secure passage for her on a ship bound for the South. Whipple somewhat passively-aggressively urged Washington, in his letters to the man following his own failure to recapture Ona, that Northern attitudes toward slavery were changing rapidly, and that emancipation might be the only way forward.
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If Washington wanted his slave woman back, he would have to follow the law and consequently expose himself to the growing antislavery sentiment in New Hampshire and across New England.
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If Washington wanted his slave woman back, he would have to follow the law and consequently expose himself to the growing antislavery sentiment in New Hampshire and across New England.
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