{"id":30052,"date":"2024-02-02T14:38:58","date_gmt":"2024-02-02T19:38:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/?p=30052"},"modified":"2026-02-24T14:16:39","modified_gmt":"2026-02-24T19:16:39","slug":"in-praise-of-the-life-and-times-of-hannah-crafts","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/in-praise-of-the-life-and-times-of-hannah-crafts\/","title":{"rendered":"In praise of &#8216;The Life and Times of Hannah Crafts&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>When Henry Louis Gates published &#8220;The Bondwoman&#8217;s Narrative&#8221; in 2002, the identity of its author remained elusive. &#8220;The Bondwoman&#8217;s Narrative,&#8221; likely written in the late 1850s, is the first known novel by a Black woman. Through decades-long research, Gregg Hecimovich, an English professor at Furman University, unveiled the author&#8217;s identity and told the story of her enslavement in &#8220;The Life and Times of Hannah Crafts: The True Story of the Bondwoman&#8217;s Narrative&#8221; (Ecco\/HarperCollins). Kelly Scott Franklin, associate professor of English at Hillsdale College in Michigan, wrote a review of the book for <a href=\"https:\/\/www.wsj.com\/arts-culture\/books\/the-life-and-times-of-hannah-crafts-review-a-narrative-of-her-own-418143aa\">The Wall Street Journal<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>A subscription may be required to view the full article. Furman ID holders have access to the content through databases located at Furman University Libraries.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Hannah Crafts fled North and finished a novel of her life in slavery and her escape from her enslaver&#8217;s North Carolina home. Her identity long remained a mystery until Hecimovich uncovered a trove of details about the bondwoman.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":257,"featured_media":28718,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[31,6,52,35,1558],"tags":[2543,2544,1110],"class_list":["post-30052","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-english","category-in-the-news","category-library","category-parent-news","category-the-wall-street-journal","tag-fugitive-slaves","tag-hillsdale-college","tag-slavery"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30052","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/257"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=30052"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30052\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":41182,"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30052\/revisions\/41182"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/28718"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=30052"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=30052"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=30052"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}