Our Nig: Or, Sketches from the Life of a Free Black

by Harriet E. Wilson

Overview

IN offering to the public the following pages, the writer confesses her inability to minister to the refined and culti- vated, the pleasure supplied by abler pens. It is not for such these crude narrations appear. Deserted by kindred, disabled by failing health, I am forced to some experiment which shall aid me in maintaining myself and child with- out extinguishing this feeble life. I would not from these motives even palliate slavery at the South, by disclosures of its appurtenances North

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781412188555
Publisher:	eBooksLib
Publication date:	04/21/2010
Sold by:	Barnes & Noble
Format:	eBook
File size:	223 KB

About the Author

Harriet E . Wilson worked from a young age as an indentured servant in the home of a New Hampshire family. After publishing Our Nig, she gained fame in New England as an early businesswoman and then as a Spiritualist lecturer.

P. Gabrielle Foreman is a professor of English and American studies at Occidental College.

Reginald H. Pitts is a genealogical consultant and historical researcher.