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. With an introduction and notes by Henry Louis Gates, Jr.
New York: Vintage Books, 1983. Trade Paperback. lix, 140p. [facsimile pages], xxxiii [notes and chronology], trade-size wraps. Paperstock toned, nick to back cover, else very good.
Reissue of the 1859 novel by an African American woman that attacked the racism of the North as well as the slave system of the South. Gates' introduction and notes clearly establish the identity of the first African American woman to publish fiction in English.
Cat.No: 180441
ISBN: 0394715586
Price: $12.00
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See all items by Harriet E. Wilson, as "Our Nig" originally published pseudonymously