The Life and Times of Hannah Crafts: The True Story of The Bondwoman's Narrative Fear & Worry celebrates everyday heroism

celebrates everyday heroism

This reunion will tear a family apart

heartbreak

complicated family dynamics

The Life and Times of Hannah Crafts: The True Story of The Bondwoman's Narrative Fear & Worry celebrates everyday heroismWinner of the Los Angeles Times Book Prize for Biography Finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award for Biography A groundbreaking study of the first Black female novelist and her life as an enslaved woman, from the biographer who solved the mystery of her identity, with a foreword by Henry Louis Gates Jr. 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