In Search of the Real Hannah Crafts

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In 2002 a newly published and soon-to-be best-selling novel made front-page headlines—and no wonder. Acerbic and witty, nuanced and astute, The Bondwoman’s Narrative by “Hannah Crafts, A Fugitive Slave Recently Escaped from North Carolina,” was evidently the first novel by a Black woman to provide a chronicle of slavery from the inside. Years earlier the […]

Original source: https://www.nybooks.com/articles/2024/08/15/in-search-of-the-real-hannah-crafts-gregg-hecimovich/

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