erica armstrong dunbar from the university of bell delaware with us. you might have seen her feepered in the new york city times and on many npr programs. she is talking about a very important subject. she received her ma and ph.d from columbia university. she was the inaugural director in african-american history at the library directory. she is the perfect person to a take on the challenge of covering the story of ona judge. [applause] >> good evening, everyone. happy black history month. here i am. so, first, let me make -- offer a few thank you. of course to dunn bradford who invite sa invited. meechlt i think there is -- invited me. i think there is no better place to give this talk. i would like to thank emily for helping me with arrangements. it has been a very, very busy week. this book just came out on tuesday of last week. and so as an academic, doug said my first book was published with yale university press and this book is more of a set of crossover trade books for a larger, more general audience. it is a very different experience. one tha

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we are exceptionally pleased to have with us erica armstrong dunbar from university of delaware with us tonight. you might have seen her featured in the "new york times" recently, and on many npr programs but this is where she belongs, talking about a very important subject picture theater ph.d from columbia university. in 2011 she became the inaugural director of the program and african-american history of the library company philadelphia. they should've called you the founding director. her first book, fragile freedom, african-american women and emancipation in the antebellum city published by yale, extremely well-regarded an important study of an understudied topic up to that point and so the perfect person to take on the challenge to recover the story of ona judge. let's all give erica a big round of applause. [applause] >> good evening, everyone. happy black history month. here i am. so first let me offer a few thank use of coercive doug bradburn who invited me. i really think that there's no other place that i should be getting this talk. can you all seen the crux i'm verticall

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