"A groundbreaking study of the first Black female novelist and her life as an enslaved woman, from the biographer who solved the mystery of her identity, with a preface by Henry Louis Gates Jr."--

Beginnings -- Search -- Nat Turner, the Wheelers, and The Bondwoman's Narrative -- Revolt -- Candidates -- Childhood -- Property -- Rosea Pugh and Hannah Sr. -- Early life of Hannah Crafts -- Bondwoman's Narrative and Uncle Tom's Cabin -- Notebook -- Religion -- Wheelers -- Novel -- Life and times of Eliza Morgan -- Bondwoman's Narrative and Bleak House -- Search continued -- Life and times of Jane Johnson -- Life and times of Hannah Crafts -- Life and times of Hannah Vincent