In 1951, the bibliographer Dorothy Porter bought an old manuscript from a rare-books dealer for $85-- "The Bondwoman's Narrative," an unpublished, handwritten novel discovered in New Jersey. Its author was identified as "Hannah Crafts," a fugitive slave from North Carolina. It remained in Porter's files until 2001, when the scholar Henry Louis Gates Jr. bought it at auction. It turned out to be the earliest-known novel by a black woman, a story...
- 'The Life and Times of Hannah Crafts' Review: A Narrative of Her Own; After fleeing to the North, she finished a novel of her life in slavery and her escape. Her identity long remained a mystery.
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- Wall Street Journal (2008-), Vol.283(25), p.A13
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