The Bondwoman's Narrative
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The Bondwoman's Narrative is a novel by Hannah Crafts whose plot revolves around an escape from slavery in North Carolina. The manuscript was not authenticated and properly published until 2002. Schol
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Title page of manuscript of The Bondwoman's Narrative. Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library, gift of Henry Louis Gates Jr.
John H. Wheeler
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John Hill Wheeler was an American attorney, politician, historian, planter and slaveowner. He served as North Carolina State Treasurer, and as United States Minister to Nicaragua.
The Bondwoman's Narrative
…verifying it, and research to identify the author. Crafts was believed to be a pseudonym of an enslaved woman who had escaped from the plantation of John Hill Wheeler. In September 2013, Gregg Hecimovich, a professor of English at Winthrop University, documented the novelist as Hannah Bond, who later adopted her pen…
John H. Wheeler