THE LIFE AND TIMES OF HANNAH CRAFTS: The True Story of the Bondwoman's Narrative

In 1857, a woman escaped enslavement on a North Carolina plantation and fled to a farm in New York. In hiding, she worked on a manuscript that would make her famous long after her death. The novel, The Bondwoman's Narrative, was first published in 2002 to great acclaim, but the author's identity remained unknown until now. Illus.