The Bondwoman's Narrative Hannah Crafts
Publisher: Grand Central Publishing

The Life of a Free Black (1859), by Harriet Wilson, the first novel published by an African American woman; and The Bondwoman's Narrative by Hannah Crafts, one of the first novels written by an African American woman. The Bondwoman's Narrative, discovered by Dr. Henry Louis Gates, Jr., Alphonse Fletcher University Professor and Director of the W.E.B. Hannah crafts - The Bondwoman's Narrative sold stc. NEW PODCAST: The Bondwoman's Narrative. Need to read for my book club - the Bondwoman's Narrative by Hannah Crafts - purportedly the first novel by an African American woman, written during the days of slavery - I guess the authenticity is somewhat in dispute. Henry Louis Gates, is a novel about a slave woman written by a former slave. Nick difonzo - the worst album covers in the world ever - hardback. Parts of it take place before Emancipation and are grueling to read. Grace Saunders - the fabulous mums handbook. In works from Hannah Crafts' The Bondwoman's Narrative to Frances Harper's Iola Leroy to William Faulkner's Absalom, Absalom!