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Erica Armstrong Dunbar

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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. She is also the author of She Came to Slay, an illustrated tribute to Harriet Tubman, and the co-executive producer of the HBO series The Gilded Age.

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Never Caught, the Story of Ona Judge

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Ida B. Wells

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Susie King Taylor

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Reckoning with History book cover

Reckoning with History

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She Came to Slay

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Never Caught, the Story of Ona Judge book cover

Never Caught, the Story of Ona Judge

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Never Caught book cover

Never Caught

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