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Erica Armstrong Dunbar is an award-winning historian, professor, and author known for illuminating the lives of Black women and other people whose experiences have often received insufficient attention in traditional accounts of American history. Her acclaimed book Never Caught tells the story of Ona Judge, an enslaved woman who escaped from George and Martha Washington and resisted repeated efforts to return her to bondage. Through careful archival research and accessible narrative history, Dunbar places individual lives within larger questions about slavery, freedom, race, gender, and the contradictions of the early United States. She has also written works for younger audiences and books examining other significant Black women in American history. Readers searching for Erica Armstrong Dunbar audiobooks, Never Caught audiobook, Ona Judge biography, African American history audiobooks, women’s history, slavery nonfiction, and early American history will find compelling and deeply researched listening. Her work is particularly suited to students, educators, history enthusiasts, and listeners interested in recovering perspectives often minimized in older historical narratives. Dunbar offers audiobook audiences history centered on human agency and experience, showing how examining one person’s struggle for autonomy can transform our understanding of famous leaders, national ideals, and the complicated realities of America’s past.