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Erica Armstrong Dunbar

Erica Armstrong Dunbar
Erica Armstrong Dunbar is the Charles and Mary Beard Professor of History at Rutgers University. Her first book, A Fragile Freedom: African American Women and Emancipation in the Antebellum City, was published by Yale University Press in 2008. Her second book, Never Caught: The Washingtons’ Relentless Pursuit of Their Runaway Slave, Ona Judge was a 2017 finalist for the National Book Award in nonfiction and a winner of the 2018 Frederick Douglass Book Award.


On Harriet Tubman’s Final Escape Mission

A November Snowstorm and a Last-Minute Change of Plans
November 8, 2019  By Erica Armstrong Dunbar
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