One of the most surprising books I read this year was The Life and Times of Hannah Crafts by Gregg Hecimovich, the story of an enslaved woman who surreptitiously learned to read and then wrote a fictionalized account of her life and escape to freedom in the first novel written by black woman in America, The Bondwoman’s Narrative.
Rescuing One Woman’s Life from Oblivion
Gregg Hecimovich on the Role of Historians in Uncovering the Past and Illuminating Our Lives
