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, whe...
Description:
"C. A. Alma [I?]" inscribed in pencil on verso of last l
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").
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
