TY  - BOOK
AU  - Crafts,  Hannah
TI  - The Bondwoman's Narrative
SN  - 1-86049-013-1
PB  - Time Warner Books
KW  - Fiction
KW  - Historical
N2  - An unprecedented historical and literary event, this tale written in the 1850s is the only known novel by a female African American slave, and quite possibly the first novel written by a black woman anywhere. A work recently uncovered by renowned scholar Professor Henry Louis Gates, Jr., it is a stirring, page-turning story of "passing" and the adventures of a young slave as she makes her way to freedom
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