Garry Walton’s Reviews > The Life and Times of Hannah Crafts > Status Update

Much to admire in this book, but less to love. Tremendous research evident into an important, rare story. But details of genealogical sleuthing - into property records, estate sale inventories, census records, of enslaved people who bore similar first names and often no recorded surnames - are tedious, confusing, not always clearly presented. Sometimes the style waxes florid, or lapses into repetitive speculation.