Our Nig: or, Sketches from the Life of a Free Black EPUB
by Harriet E. Wilson
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Harriet E. Wilson is the first female African American to publish a novel in North America.
Her first and only work, "Our Nig: Sketches from the Life of a Free Black" was first published in 1859.
Considered lost until 1982 when it was rediscovered by scholar Henry Louis Gates Jr., the novel is largely autobiographical, tracking the life of a free black women in the Antebellum North.
At the age of three, the protagonist Frado is abandoned by her parents and left at the house of the Bellmonts, a wealthy New England family.
Her life as a free black woman in the North is filled with hardship and suffering.
This realistic tale sugar coats nothing, and the reader witnesses Frado's difficult life as a servant to the family.
A groundbreaking work of gender and race identity, Wilson creates a tremendous narrative central to African American history which helped to begin a tradition of African American literature in America.
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- Publisher:Neeland Media LLC
- Publication Date:20/03/2020
- ISBN:9781420968484
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- Format:EPUB
- Publisher:Neeland Media LLC
- Publication Date:20/03/2020
- ISBN:9781420968484