Crafts, Hannah
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Name (Hebrew)
קרפטס, הנה
Name (Latin)
Crafts, Hannah
Other forms of name
Bond, Hannah
Date of birth
1830
Associated country
United States
Occupation
Novelists
Gender
female
MARC
MARC
Other Identifiers
Sources of Information
- African American National Biography, accessed December 21, 2014, via Oxford African American Studies Center database:(Bond, Hannah; Hannah Crafts; slave, autobiographer/ memoirist; born 1830 in North Carolina, United States; the Wheelers gained ownership of Hannah (1856); escaped from the Wheeler plantation (1857); settled in New Jersey; chose the pseudonym Hannah Crafts; authored The Bondwoman's Narrative, which is most likely the first novel written by a black female and is the first novel written by a female fugitive slave (experts dated it between 1853 and 1861); the novel reached the New York Times bestseller list; died- date and place unknown)
- Crafts, Hannah. The bondwoman's narrative, c2002:t.p. (Hannah Crafts) p. 1 (facsimile of signature: Hannah Crafts) p. lx, etc. (could possibly be same person as Maria H. Crafts or Hannah Vincent; an 1850s autobiographical novel by a female slave who called herself and her story's main character Hannah Crafts)
- New York times online, Sept. 18, 2013, viewed Sept. 23, 2013 (article appeared in print Sept. 19, 2013)(Gregg Hecimovich of Winthrop Univ. states that Hannah Bond was actual name of author of The bondwoman's narrative; she was slave on plantation in Murfreesboro, N.C.; later worked as teacher in New Jersey)
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