The Friends Free Library Community Writers Series, 5418 Germantown Avenue, invites you to a special evening featuring Erica Armstrong Dunbar, author of Never Caught: The Washingtons’ Relentless Pursuit of Their Runaway Slave, Ona Judge.

Erica Armstrong Dunbar is the University of Delaware’s Professor of Black American Studies and History, a member of the GFS Class of 1990, and a current GFS parent.

Erica is the Blue and Gold Distinguished Professor of Black American Studies and History at the University of Delaware. Her first book, A Fragile Freedom (2008), chronicled the lives of African American women in the urban north during the early years of the Republic. She has been named a distinguished lecturer by the Organization of American Historians, and has received fellowships from the Ford Foundation, Mellon Foundation and Social Science Research Council. She appeared in the documentaries Philadelphia: The Great Experiment and The Abolitionists, a PBS American Experience production.

This event is free and open to the public. Books will be available for purchase.

Historic Germantown is offering two tours of the Deshler-Morris House (5442 Germantown Avenue), where Ona Judge was enslaved in the Washington household in the early 1790s, prior to the author event, at 5:30 p.m. and 6 p.m. Capacity is limited; pre-registration is required.