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OUR NIG - or Sketches from the Life of a Free Black

OUR NIG - or Sketches from the Life of a Free Black

OUR NIG - or Sketches from the Life of a Free Black

OUR NIG - or Sketches from the Life of a Free Black

by Wilson, Harriet E. (introduction by Henry Louis Gates Jr)

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0394532104
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9780394532103
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New York: Random House, 1983. Book. Very Good. Soft cover. First Printing - First Thus. 8vo. (lix) 140 pp. (xxxiii) Trade paperback format. Lightly rubbed on the corners with a faint crease on the spine; previous owner's name inside; no other interior markings. This was the first novel ever published by a black person in the United States; it was also the first novel ever published by an African American woman. The full title is: 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 by Our Nig. This volume contains: Introduction by Henry Louis Gates Jr; A Note on the Text; Preface by Harriet E. Wilson; The Text - a facsimile of the 1859 Geo. C. Rand first edition; Appendix: Letters: Allida; Margaretta Thorn; C.D.S.; Notes on the Text; Chronology of Harriet E. Adams Wilson by David A. Curtis; and a select bibliography..

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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 of a black woman in the antebellum North. In the story of Frado, a spirited black girl who is abused and overworked as the indentured servant to a New England family, Harriet E. Wilson tells a heartbreaking story about the resilience of the human spirit. This edition incorporates new research showing that Wilson was not only a pioneering African-American literary figure but also an entrepreneur in the black women's hair care market fifty years before Madame C. J. Walker's hair care empire made her the country's first woman millionaire.

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W. Fraser Sandercombe CA (CA)
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Title
OUR NIG - or Sketches from the Life of a Free Black
Author
Wilson, Harriet E. (introduction by Henry Louis Gates Jr)
Format/Binding
Paperback
Book Condition
Used - Very Good
Edition
First Printing - First Thus
ISBN 10
0394532104
ISBN 13
9780394532103
Publisher
Random House
Place of Publication
New York
Date Published
1983
Size
8vo
Keywords
black studies; african american; negro; slavery; racism; racist; prejudice; bigot; bigotry; freedom; civil rights; black lives matter; ghetto;
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Literature;

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