Ona Maria Judge Staines (Q491475)
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HC-PER-37932
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Seamstress
Slave
Ona Maria Judge Staines
Enslaved. Free before 13th Amendment. Enslaved as a seamstress and personal servant to Martha Washington, she later escaped to New Hampshire and avoided the Washingtons' efforts to take her back into slavery.