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Ona Judge is probably not someone you learned about in history class.

She was a chambermaid for Martha Washington, and with the help of some free Black friends she had made while living with the Washingtons in Philadelphia, Judge made a daring escape from the presidential mansion one night in 1796 while the first family ate dinner. She had recently learned she was going to be given to Martha’s granddaughter as a wedding gift.

Timothy Welbeck, a civil rights lawyer and professor of African American Studies at Temple University in Philadelphia, believes Judge’s story is vital to the telling of American history. It represents the “paradox of freedom and slavery” that the nation was founded upon, he writes.

Yet Judge’s story now plays a smaller part in America’s telling of its own story. In January, the National Park Service removed an outdoor exhibit at Independence National Historic Park that explained the role slavery played in America’s founding, and included details about Ona Judge and the eight other people George and Martha Washington owned at the President’s House in Philly.

As the United States prepares to celebrate the 250th anniversary of the framers signing the Declaration of Independence, Welbeck writes, it must decide how much of its history it’s actually willing to explore.

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