Description
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. This edition is printed on premium acid-free paper.
Author: Harriet E. Wilson
Publisher: Digireads.com
Published: 03/18/2020
Pages: 60
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 0.19lbs
Size: 8.50h x 5.50w x 0.14d
ISBN13: 9781420968477
ISBN10: 1420968475
BISAC Categories:
- Fiction | African American & Black | Women
- Fiction | Political
- Fiction | Classics
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