The Bondwoman’s Narrative (Magill’s Literary Annual 1991-2005)
At a glance:
- Author: Hannah Crafts
- First Published: 2002
- Type of Work: Novel
- Time of Work: The 1850’s
- Setting: The United States
- Principal Characters: Hannah Crafts, Mrs. Vincent, Mr. Trappe, Mrs. Henry, Mrs. Wheeler, Aunt Hetty
- Genres: Long fiction, Slave narrative
- Subjects: African Americans, Virginia, Freedom, United States or Americans, Blacks, Escapes, Nineteenth century, Slavery or slaves, Literature, New Jersey, Women, Domestic work or workers, Captivity, Literacy
- Locales: United States
Dr. Henry Louis Gates, Jr., an internationally acclaimed literary and cultural critic and director of the W. E. B. Du Bois Center for Afro-American Research, has received considerable attention in the past for his discovery of unknown or neglected works by early African American authors. After finding a copy of Harriet E. Wilson’s novel Our Nig: Or, Sketches from the Life of a Free Black (1859) in a secondhand bookstore, Gates reissued the long-forgotten novel in 1983 and established Harriet E. Wilson as the first African American woman to publish a novel in the United States,...
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