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Gates found the work, entitled “The Bondwoman??s Narrative,” in an auction catalogue in the summer of 2001 and purchased it for $9,775. Appraised recently, the document was found to be worth $350,000. The mid-nineteenth century account is believed to have been written by an escaped slave, Hannah Crafts...
Jonathan Holloway, director of undergraduate studies at Yale’s African American studies department, said “The Bondwoman??s Narrative” will strengthen the library’s 19th century collection...
This month Gates published a manuscript written by a 19th-century slave—a document he bought last year and subsequently authenticated and edited. The Bondwoman??s Narrative, subtitled “a novel,” is a fictionalized biography...
Unlike the celebrated autobiography of Frederick Douglass, The Bondwoman??s Narrative is embellished and dramatized. It’s a work of what Gates calls “autobiographical fiction”—one of just a few such fictional accounts by American slaves, he said...
Nina Baym, a professor at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign and a women’s literature scholar, called “The Bondwoman??s Narrative” a “great find...