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Hannah Crafts



Hannah Bond, pen name Hannah Crafts (b.ca.1830s), was an African-American writer who escaped from slavery in North Carolina about 1857 and went to the North. Bond settled in New Jersey, likely married Thomas Vincent, and became a teacher. She wrote The Bondwoman's Narrative by Hannah Crafts after gaining freedom, which may be the first novel by an African-American woman. It is the only known one by a fugitive slave woman.

Apparently written in the late 1850s, the novel was published in 2002 for the first time after Henry Louis Gates, Jr., a Harvard University professor of African-American literature and history, purchased the manuscript and had it authenticated. [I]t rapidly became a bestseller.

Bond's identity was documented in 2013 by Gregg ...more

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The Bondwoman's Narrative
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“For say what you will of lovers there's nothing so flattering to female vanity as the praise of a husband, because it is universally considered a more difficult matter to retain affection than to win it.”
― Hannah Crafts, The Bondwoman's Narrative
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“Those to whom man teaches little, nature like a wise and prudent mother teaches much.”
― Hannah Crafts
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“At finding ourselves, and without having committed any crime, thus introduced into one of the legal fortresses of a country celebrated throughout the world for the freedom, equality, and magnanimity of its laws, I could not help reflecting on the strange ideas of right and justice that seemed to have usurped a place in public opinion, since the mere accident of birth, and what persons were the lease capable of changing or modifying was made a reason for punishing and imprisoning them.”
― Hannah Crafts, The Bondwoman's Narrative
tags: freedom, history, prejudice, slavery
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Polls

In honor of Black History Month in February, we read a fiction or non-fiction book by a black author, or featuring subject matter surrounding the black experience and/or characters. Poll will be open through January 12.

I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings (Maya Angelou's Autobiography, #1) by Maya Angelou Maya Angelou
 
  4 votes, 50.0%

The Bond Woman's Narrative The Bondwoman's Narrative by Hannah Crafts Hannah Crafts
 
  3 votes, 37.5%

 
  1 vote, 12.5%

Red River Red River by Lalita Tademy Lalita Tademy
 
  0 votes, 0.0%

The Changeling The Changeling by Victor LaValle Victor LaValle
 
  0 votes, 0.0%

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