The artwork in Portsmouth, New Hampshire, shows Judge arriving in the city after her journey from Philadelphia in May 1796. She remained a free woman until her death in 1848 No likenesses of Ona Judge survive, so the team used artificial intelligence to generate a likeness informed by a description of her in a runaway ad. Artist Manuel Ramirez then refined the depiction. Black Heritage Trail of New Hampshire On May 21, 1796, George Washington and his family sat down for dinner at the President’s House in Philadelphia, enjoying one of their last meals in the city before returning to Mount Vernon for the summer. As the Washingtons dined, an enslaved woman named Ona Judge made her escape, slipping out of the mansion to freedom. “Whilst they were packing up to go to Virginia, I was packing to go, I didn’t know where,” Judge recalled in an 1845 interview .…