Bound holograph draft, revised, of a fictional or semi-fictional autobiography of a former slave. It details her experiences as a maid in several households in Virginia, Washington, D.C., and North Carolina, and her subsequent escape to the North, where she settled in New Jersey. and The narrator also tells the stories of other slaves she knows or comes into contact with, and to some extent the histories of the families she works for, identified as the De Vincents, the Henrys, and the Wheelers. A large portion of the narrative concerns the pursuit of Mrs. De Vincent by a slave trader who discovers that she is of mixed race. Another substantial section describes the Wheeler's political fortunes in Washington.
Description:
"C. A. Alma [I?]" inscribed in pencil on verso of last l and Probable date range from Nickel, Joe, "Authentication Report: The Bondwoman's Narrative." In The Bondwoman's Narrative / Hannah Crafts, edited by Henry Louis Gates, Jr. New York: Warner Books, 2002.
Subject (Geographic):
North Carolina--Fiction, Virginia--Fiction, and Washington (D.C.)--Fiction
Subject (Name):
Crafts, Hannah
Subject (Topic):
African American women--Fiction, Fugitive slaves--Fiction, Passing (Identity)--Fiction, Plantation, Racially mixed people--Fiction, Slavery--Southern States--Fiction, and Women slaves--Fiction
Cruikshank, George, 1792-1878, ill Dalziel Brothers, engraver Green, W. T., fl. 1837-1872, engraver Jackson, Mason, 1819-1903, engraver Measom, William, engraver Stowe, Harriet Beecher, 1811-1896 Williams, Thomas, b. ca. 1800, engraver Willis, G. W., engraver
Published / Created:
1852
Call Number:
1997 784
Image Count:
4
Description:
"Notice of Mrs. Stowe and her family" (p. [xv]-xxii) largely based upon an article from Fraser's magazine, 1852, v. 46, p. 518-525 ("Some account of Mrs. Beecher Stowe and her family, by an Alabama ma")., Cruikshank's designs engraved on wood by Dalziel, W.T. Green, Mason Jackson, William Measom, Thomas Williams, and G.W. Willis., Originally issued in 13 parts in paper wrappers., Preface to the American edition -- Contents -- List of the illustrations -- Introduction -- Mrs. Stowe and her family -- Opinions of the press -- Results -- Uncle Tom's cabin., Publisher's advertisement: [1] p. at end., and With a wood-engraved frontispiece portrait of the author.
Publisher:
John Cassell,
Subject (Name):
Cassell, John--Publisher
Subject (Topic):
African Americans--Fiction, Chron.--1852, Fugitive slaves--Fiction, Plantation life--Fiction, Slavery--Fiction, Southern States--Fiction, and Uncle Tom (Fictitious character)--Fiction
