Hannah Bond

…real-world experiences of its author, Hannah Bond (who published under the pseudonym Hannah Crafts)—was discovered in manuscript in the early 21st century and is among the earliest contributions to African American women’s fiction. Harper was renowned in mid-19th-century Black America as the poetic voice of her people, a writer whose…

…American woman who signed herself Hannah Crafts—purports to be the autobiography of a fugitive slave from North Carolina. This unique manuscript, however, is also highly fictionalized, making it an important contribution to the novelization of the slave narrative signaled by the complex authorial voice in Douglass’s My Bondage and My…