Hannah Bond: From hardship to becoming the first enslaved woman to write a book, by Gift Luckson Hannah Bond, also known by her pen name Hannah Crafts (born c. 1830s), was an American writer who escaped from slavery in North Carolina about 1857 and went to the North. Bond settled in New Jersey, likely married Thomas Vincent, and became a teacher. Literacy She wrote The Bondwoman's Narrative by Hannah Crafts after gaining freedom. It is the only known novel by an enslaved woman. Written between 1853 and 1861, the novel was published in 2002 for the...