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Hannah Bond, also known by her pen name Hannah Crafts (born c. 1830s), [1] was an American writer who escaped from slavery in North Carolina about 1857 and went to the North. Bond settled in New Jersey , likely married Thomas Vincent, and became a teacher.
The character is believed to be analogous to Hannah Crafts, the author of the book, although the name was most likely a pseudonym. The Mistress— The Mistress at Lindendale (who remains unnamed throughout the novel) is a fair-skinned mulatto who was switched with another baby at birth and raised as a wealthy aristocrat.
Hannah Bond escaped from Wheeler's North Carolina plantation about 1857, and settled in New Jersey. She came to prominence in 2001–2002, when historian Henry Louis Gates authenticated a novel, The Life and Times of Hannah Crafts. She later legalized her pseudonym Hannah Crafts in honor of the Quaker farmer, Horace Crafts, who secreted her in ...
The Search for the Author of The Bondswoman's Narrative", in the National Genealogical Society Quarterly, September 2002. In September 2013, Gregg Hecimovich, a professor at Winthrop University , published his research that documents Hannah Bond as Hannah Crafts; she was a slave at Wheeler's North Carolina plantation who escaped about 1857.
Harriet E. Wilson (March 15, 1825 – June 28, 1900) was an African-American novelist.She was the first African American to publish a novel in North America.. Her novel Our Nig, or Sketches from the Life of a Free Black was published anonymously in 1859 in Boston, Massachusetts, and was not widely known.
The L.A.-born author, who won the Pulitzer Prize for fiction in 1992 for her novel "A Thousand Acres," gave a brief, heartfelt speech, noting, "I love to write novels, I love to go for walks and ...
Hannah says many have since died from cancer, believed to be linked to Agent Orange exposure. Hannah was invited to the Vietnam Women's Memorial on Veterans Day for the 30th anniversary of the ...
Our Nig: Sketches from the Life of a Free Black is an autobiographical novel by Harriet E. Wilson.First published in 1859, [1] it was rediscovered in 1981 by Henry Louis Gates Jr. [2] and was subsequently reissued with an introduction by Gates (London: Allison & Busby, 1984). [3]