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Zach Barocas, Diasporist Diarist

The poem says, “I’m only asking
one more time, did
you or did you not?”

Searching for America’s First Black Woman Novelist | The New York Times
In “The Life and Times of Hannah Crafts,” Gregg Hecimovich pieces together the story of a woman who fled slavery, and whose manuscript was lost for more than 150 years.

