Harriet L Wilson

Our Nig

Our Nig

Our Nig, Or, Sketches from the Life of a Free Black, in a Two-Story White House, North, Showing That Slavery's Shadows Fall Even There

Three Classic African-American Novels

Our Nig: or, Sketches from the Life of a Free Black

With a New Introduction and Notes by Henry Louis Gates, Jr. and Richard J. EllisA fascinating fusion of two literary models of the nineteenth century, the sentimental novel and the slave narrative, Our Nig, apart from its historical significance, is a deeply ironic and highly readable work, tracing ...

Our Nig, Or, Sketches From the Life of a Free Black, in a Two-Story White House

This anthology is a thorough introduction to classic literature for those who have not yet experienced these literary masterworks. For those who have known and loved these works in the past, this is an invitation to reunite with old friends in a fresh new format. From Shakespeare’s finesse to Oscar ...

Three Great African-American Novels: The Heroic Slave, Clotel and Our Nig (Dover Books on Literature & Drama)

Written by three of the most prominent black writers of the nineteenth century, this trio of compelling early classics of African-American literature paints unforgettable portraits of strength and determination framed by the shackles of slavery. Abolitionist authors Frederick Douglass and William We...

Our Nig: Or Sketches from the Life of a Free Black in a Two-Story White House, North (Classic Reprint)

It is not for such these crude narrations appear. Deserted by kindred, disabled by failing health, I am forced to some experiment which shall aid me in maintaining myself and child with out extinguishing this feeble life. I would not from these motives even palliate slavery at the South, by disclosu...

Harriet Wilson's New England: Race, Writing, and Region (Revisiting New England)

In the mid-nineteenth century, Harriet E. Wilson, an enterprising woman of mixed racial heritage, wrote an autobiographical novel describing the abuse and servitude endured by a young black girl in the supposedly free North. Originally published in Boston in 1859 and lost until its 1983 republicatio...

Our Nig

IN offering to the public the following pages, the writer confesses her inability to minister to the refined and culti- vated, the pleasure supplied by abler pens. It is not for such these crude narrations appear. Deserted by kindred, disabled by failing health, I am forced to some experiment which ...

Our Nig: Sketches from the Life of a Free Black (Dover African-American Books)

"I sat up most of the night reading and pondering the enormous significance of Harriet Wilson's Our Nig." — Author Alice WalkerThis seminal autobiographical novel, originally published in 1859, is believed to have been the first by an African-American woman. Harriet Wilson's compelling story describ...

Our Nig (Penguin Books for History: U.S.)

For the 150th anniversary of its first publication, a new edition of the pioneering African-American classic, reflecting groundbreaking discoveries about its author's life First published in 1859, Our Nig is an autobiographical narrative that stands as one of the most important accounts of the life ...