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In search of Hannah Crafts

by Henry Louis Gates, Jr., Hollis Robbins

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Essays offer a critical analysis of "The Bondwoman's Narrative," a first novel written by a female African-American slave, assessing the influence of the work on our view of slavery, African-American history, and antebellum literature.

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