America's first Black female novelist was an enslaved woman in North Carolina. A new book tells her story. – Daily Press dailypress.com - get the latest breaking news, showbiz & celebrity photos, sport news & rumours, viral videos and top stories from dailypress.com Daily Mail and Mail on Sunday newspapers.
In 1948, Emily Driscoll, an autograph and book dealer, acquired a manuscript she listed in her sales catalogue as a “fictionalized biography… purporting to be the story of the early
In “The Life and Times of Hannah Crafts,” Gregg Hecimovich pieces together the story of a woman who fled slavery, and whose manuscript was lost for more than 150 years.