Erica Armstrong Dunbar Explained

Erica Armstrong Dunbar
Nationality:American
Alma Mater:University of Pennsylvania,
Columbia University
Discipline:History
Workplaces: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.

Life

Dr.Dunbar attended college at the University of Pennsylvania, then earned an M.A. and Ph.D from Columbia University. She taught at the University of Delaware[1] before joining Rutgers University in 2017.[2] She is Charles and Mary Beard Professor of History at Rutgers. Her research and teaching focus on the history of African American women and late-eighteenth and early-nineteenth-century United States history.

Her first book was A Fragile Freedom: African American Women and Emancipation in the Antebellum City, published by Yale University Press in 2008.[3] In it she examines the lives black women made in Philadelphia’s large free black community, using documents like friendship albums and personal correspondence, church records, and labor contracts.[4]

In 2017 she published Never Caught: The Washingtons’ Relentless Pursuit of Their Runaway Slave, Ona Judge.[5] [6] [7] [8] [9] Never Caught was a finalist for the 2017 National Book Award for nonfiction.[10] In November 2018 Dunbar was named joint winner of the Frederick Douglass Prize for Never Caught.[11]

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Notes and References

  1. News: A slave's flight from our first president. Damsker. Mat. February 20, 2017. USA TODAY. 5 October 2017. en.
  2. Web site: Dunbar, Erica Armstrong. Walcott-Shepherd. Candace. history.rutgers.edu. en. 2017-10-05.
  3. Rael. Patrick. 2008-12-01. A Fragile Freedom: African American Women and Emancipation in the Antebellum City. The American Historical Review. en. 113. 5. 1535–1536. 10.1086/ahr.113.5.1535. 0002-8762.
  4. Reynolds. Rita. 2011. Review of A Fragile Freedom: African American Women and Emancipation in the Antebellum City. Journal of the Early Republic. 31. 2. 322–324. 10.1353/jer.2011.0018. 41261616. 144310779.
  5. News: Melamed. Samantha. February 7, 2017. Meet the slave who escaped from George Washington's Philly mansion and was never caught. Philadelphia Inquirer. 5 October 2017.
  6. News: Schuessler. Jennifer. 6 February 2017. In Search of the Slave Who Defied George Washington. The New York Times. 5 October 2017.
  7. News: Baker. Peter C.. January 19, 2017. A Review of Erica Armstrong Dunbar's Never Caught. en. Pacific Standard. 2017-10-05.
  8. News: Lozada. Lucas Iberico. March 3, 2017. Erica Armstrong Dunbar Talks Never Caught, the True Story of George Washington's Runaway Slave. en. Paste. 2017-10-05.
  9. News: November 23, 2016. NEVER CAUGHT Ona Judge, the Washingtons, and the Relentless Pursuit of Their Runaway Slave by Erica Armstrong Dunbar. Kirkus Reviews. October 5, 2017.
  10. News: October 4, 2017. 2017 National Book Award finalists revealed. en. CBS News. 2017-10-04.
  11. News: 2018-11-19. Rutgers, Harvard professors share 20th annual Frederick Douglass Book Prize. en. YaleNews. 2018-11-20.