The Bondwoman's narrative / by Hannah Crafts, a fugitive slave recently escaped from North Carolina

Creator:

Crafts, Hannah

Published/Created:

n.p
[ca. 1853-1861]

Physical Description:

1 v. ([2],301, [2] p.)
25 x 20 cm.

Notes:

Probable date range from Nickel, Joe, "Authentication Report: The Bondwoman's Narrative." In The Bondwoman's Narrative / Hannah Crafts, edited by Henry Louis Gates, Jr. New York: Warner Books, 2002.
"C. A. Alma [I?]" inscribed in pencil on verso of last l

Abstract:

Bound holograph draft, revised, of a fictional or semi-fictional autobiography of a former slave. It details her experiences as a maid in several households in Virginia, Washington, D.C., and North Carolina, and her subsequent escape to the North, where she settled in New Jersey.
The narrator also tells the stories of other slaves she knows or comes into contact with, and to some extent the histories of the families she works for, identified as the De Vincents, the Henrys, and the Wheelers. A large portion of the narrative concerns the pursuit of Mrs. De Vincent by a slave trader who discovers that she is of mixed race. Another substantial section describes the Wheeler's political fortunes in Washington.

Topics:

African American women--Fiction
Fugitive slaves--Fiction
Passing (Identity)--Fiction
Plantation
Racially mixed people--Fiction
Slavery--Southern States--Fiction
Women slaves--Fiction

Topics:

North Carolina--Fiction
Virginia--Fiction
Washington (D.C.)--Fiction

Topics:

Crafts, Hannah

Genre:

Autobiographical fiction.--gsafd
Slave narratives.--rbgenr

Format:

Text

Rights:

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Access Restrictions:

Public

Call Number:

JWJ MSS 29

Orbis Record:

6233528

Orbis Barcode:

39002093796671

Yale Collection:

Beinecke Library

Digital Collection:

Yale Collection of American Literature

oid pointer:

1010673

Citation:

Hannah Crafts, The Bondwoman's Narrative. Yale Collection of American Literature, Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library.

Extent of digitization:

Complete work digitized.

OID:

2002811

PID:

digcoll:3325713