Erica Armstrong Dunbar says that “when I was a young girl I would read for hours at a time, completely captivated and lost between the covers of a book. I sat in small classrooms at my Philadelphia Quaker school and found myself more and more attracted to what I called ‘true stories’ or what I would later recognize as the field of history. … I became a historian of the African American experience and I committed myself 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.” Dunbar is the Charles and Mary Beard Professor of History at Rutgers University and national director of the Association of Black Women Historians. Her new book is “She Came to Slay: The Life and Times of Harriet Tubman” (37 INK).
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