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With 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

Our Nig

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    A Paperback / softback by Harriet E. Wilson, Henry Louis Gates, Richard J. Ellis

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      Publisher Penguin Random House Group
      Imprint Random House USA Inc
      Published 20 December 2011
      ISBN-13 9780307477453
      978-0307477453
      ISBN-10 0307477452

      Description

      Book Synopsis
      With 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

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