Join us as we talk with Dr. Billy Smith as he discusses his most recent project on “Mapping Inequality and Resistance: The Story of Ona Judge and Martha Washington.” Ona Judge, an enslaved woman who served as a personal servant to Martha Washington, escaped from the President’s Mansion in Philadelphia and boarded a ship bound for New Hampshire in search of freedom. Despite George’s attempts to recover her, Judge lived the rest of her life free in New Hampshire. Because of her escape and the prominence of the household from which she fled, much more is known about Ona Judge’s life in slavery than other enslaved people in late-eighteenth-century Philadelphia. With this information, Dr. Billy G. Smith used mapping to explore the lived realities of inequality, resistance, and their possible solutions in early national Philadelphia.Dr. Dr. Smith is recently retired from the Department of History and Philosophy at Montana State University, where his research focuses on poorer people and runaway slaves in early America as well as the experience of everyday life. His book, Ship of Death: The Voyage that Changed the Atlantic World (Yale, 2013), uncovers the long-forgotten story of a small British Ship, the Hankey. Despite its altruistic intentions to help found a colony free of slavery in West Africa, the Hankey ended up transporting mosquitos infected with yellow fever to the United States, leading to a devastating epidemic that had ripple effects throughout the Atlantic World.