Description
Book SynopsisWith a New Introduction and Notes by Henry Louis Gates, Jr. and Richard J. Ellis
A fascinating fusion of two literary models of the nineteenth century, the sentimental novel and the slave narrative,
Our Nig, apart from its historical significance, is a deeply ironic and highly readable work, tracing the trials and tribulations of Frado, a mulatto girl abandoned by her white mother after the death of the child's black father, who grows up as an indentured servant to a white family in nineteenth-century Massachusetts.
This definitive edition of
Our Nig includes a new Introduction by Henry Louis Gates, Jr. and Richard J. Ellis and a set of appendices: Harriet Wilson's Career as a Spiritualist; Hattie E. Wilson in the
Banner of Light and
Spiritual Scientist a collection of her extant contributions to these newspapers; Documents from Harriet Wilson's Life in Boston, and a compilation of primary source material
