Our Nig - Harriet E Wilson
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Our Nig: Sketches from the Life of a Free Black by Harriet E. Wilson is considered the first novel published by an African American woman in the United States. It is a semi-autobiographical work that tells the story of Frado, a mixed-race girl who is abandoned by her white mother and forced into indentured servitude in a racist household in the North. Unlike many 19th-century narratives that focused on slavery in the South, Our Nig exposes racism and abuse in the supposedly "free" North. The novel follows Frado's journey from childhood to adulthood as she endures cruelty, labor exploitation,…mehr

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Our Nig: Sketches from the Life of a Free Black by Harriet E. Wilson is considered the first novel published by an African American woman in the United States. It is a semi-autobiographical work that tells the story of Frado, a mixed-race girl who is abandoned by her white mother and forced into indentured servitude in a racist household in the North. Unlike many 19th-century narratives that focused on slavery in the South, Our Nig exposes racism and abuse in the supposedly "free" North. The novel follows Frado's journey from childhood to adulthood as she endures cruelty, labor exploitation, and racial discrimination while struggling for autonomy and dignity. Though largely forgotten until rediscovered in the 1980s, Our Nig is a groundbreaking novel that provides a rare firsthand account of Black life in the 19th-century North. It is essential reading for understanding early African American literature and the complexities of race in American history.
Autorenporträt
Harriet E. Wilson (1825–1900) was born in New Hampshire, where she worked from a young age as a servant to an abusive family. Henry Louis Gates, Jr., is the Alphonse Fletcher University Professor and the Director of the W. E. B. Du Bois Institute for African and African American Research at Harvard University. The author of numerous books, including the widely acclaimed memoir Colored People, Professor Gates has also edited several anthologies and is coeditor with Kwame Anthony Appiah of Encarta Africana, an encyclopedia of the African Diaspora. An influential cultural critic, he is a frequent contributor to The New Yorker and other publications and is the recipient of many honors, including a MacArthur Foundation Fellowship and the National Humanities Medal. Richard J. Ellis is Professor and Chair of the American and Canadian Studies Department at the University of Birmingham in the United Kingdom. He has published widely on American studies topics. His two most recent monographs are Liar! Liar!—Jack Kerouac Novelist (1999) and Harriet Wilson's Our Nig: A Cultural Biography (2003). He is the editor of Comparative American Studies: An International Journal and currently serves on the ASA's International Committee.