{"id":41883,"date":"2015-07-23T02:13:36","date_gmt":"2015-07-23T02:13:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mixedracestudies.org\/?p=41883"},"modified":"2017-12-25T20:14:07","modified_gmt":"2017-12-25T20:14:07","slug":"our-nig-or-sketches-from-the-life-of-a-free-black","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/?p=41883","title":{"rendered":"Our Nig; or, Sketches from the Life of a Free Black"},"content":{"rendered":"

Our Nig; or, Sketches from the Life of a Free Black<\/a><\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n

Penguin Press<\/a>
\n2009 (First published in 1859)
\n176 pages
\nPaperback ISBN: 9780143105763
\nEbook ISBN: 9781440649141<\/p>\n

Harriet E. Wilson<\/a><\/strong> (1825-1900)<\/p>\n

Introduction and Notes by:<\/p>\n

P. Gabrielle Foreman<\/a><\/strong>, Ned B. Allen Professor of English
\nUniversity of Delaware<\/em><\/p>\n

Reginald Pitts<\/strong><\/p>\n

\"\"<\/a><\/p>\n

For the 150th anniversary of its first publication, a new edition of the pioneering African-American classic, reflecting groundbreaking discoveries about its author\u2019s life<\/em><\/p>\n

First published in 1859, Our Nig<\/em> 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 <\/a>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\u2019s hair care market fifty years before Madame C. J. Walker\u2019s<\/a> hair care empire made her the country\u2019s first woman millionaire.<\/p>\n

Read the book at Project Gutenberg here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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