Harriet E. Wilson
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Harriet E. Wilson was an African-American novelist. She was the first African American to publish a novel in North America.
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Original title page of Our Nig, published by George C. Rand and Avery (1859).
Our Nig
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Our Nig: Sketches from the Life of a Free Black is an autobiographical novel by Harriet E. Wilson. First published in 1859, it was rediscovered in 1981 by Henry Louis Gates Jr. and was subsequently re
Harriet E. Wilson
…March 15, 1825 – June 28, 1900) was an African-American novelist. She was the first African American to publish a novel in North America. Her novel Our Nig, or Sketches from the Life of a Free Black was published anonymously in 1859 in Boston, Massachusetts, and was not widely known. The novel was discovered in 1982 by the scholar Henry Louis Gates…
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