THE LIFE AND TIMES OF HANNAH CRAFTS: The True Story of the Bondwoman's Narrative

A study of the first Black female novelist and her life as an enslaved woman, from the biographer who solved the mystery of her identity. In 1857, a woman escaped enslavement on a North Carolina plantation and fled to a farm in New York. In hiding, she worked on a manuscript that would make her famous long after her death. Illus.