Erica Armstrong Dunbar

ABOUT THE AUTHOR:

Erica Armstrong Dunbar is the author of the National Book Award finalist NEVER CAUGHT: Ona Judge, the Washingtons, and their Relentless Pursuit of their Runaway Slave. She attended the University of Pennsylvania where she received her BA in the departments of History and what was then called the Department of Afro-American Studies. By the age of 21, she began her formal journey to the historical profession, eventually receiving her MA and PhD from Columbia University. She followed her interests and her heart and became a historian of the African American experience, committing herself to telling the stories of black women who lived, loved, struggled, worked, prayed, and fought to survive in a nation that still recognized many of them as property.

Her writing, teaching, and lecturing focus on the uncomfortable concepts of slavery, racial injustice, and gender inequality. While there is deep pain associated with these topics, I marvel at the incredible triumph of survival and the beautiful history of resistance.

Represented by Laura Dail.