Erica Armstrong Dunbar | |
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 Author at the 2018 U.S. National Book Festival | |
| Nationality | American |
| Academic background | |
| Alma mater | University of Pennsylvania, Columbia University |
| Academic work | |
| Discipline | History |
| Institutions | Rutgers University |
Erica Armstrong Dunbar is an American historian at Rutgers University. She is a distinguished Charles and Mary Beard Professor of History at Rutgers. An historian of African American women and the antebellum United States, Dunbar is the author of A Fragile Freedom: African American Women and Emancipation in the Antebellum City (2008) and Never Caught: The Washingtons’ Relentless Pursuit of Their Runaway Slave, Ona Judge (2017). Never Caught was a National Book Award for Nonfiction finalist and winner of the Frederick Douglass Prize.