Articles tagged with: African-American literature

Professor Says He Has Solved a Mystery Over a Slave’s Novel

on Dienstag, 17 September 2013. Posted in General Autograph News

By JULIE BOSMAN, Published: September 18, 2013

In 2002, a novel thought to be the first written by an African-American woman became a best seller, praised for its dramatic depiction of Southern life in the mid-1850s through the observant eyes of a refined and literate house servant.