The Harriet E. Wilson Page

( c. 1827-? )

Major Work
Harriet E. Wilson's Our Nig was the first novel by an African American to be published in the United States. Its discovery by Henry Louis Gates, Jr. and his identification of its author is a landmark in American literary scholarship.
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 ( 1859 ). Reprinted with an introduction and notes by Henry Louis Gates, Jr., Vintage, 1983.

About Harriet E. Wilson
Harriet E. Adams Wilson from Voices from the Gaps.
Harriet E. Adams Wilson from PAL.

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