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Our Nig

or, Sketches from the Life of a Free Black

Format: Paperback / softback
Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd, London, United Kingdom
Imprint: Penguin Classics
Published: 28th Jul 2009
Dimensions: w 129mm h 196mm d 13mm
Weight: 147g
ISBN-10: 0143105760
ISBN-13: 9780143105763
Barcode No: 9780143105763
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First published in 1859, "Our Nig" is an autobiographical narrative that stands as one of the most important accounts of the life of a black woman in the antebellum North. In the story of Frado, a spirited black girl who is abused and overworked as the indentured servant to a New England family, Harriet E. Wilson tells a heartbreaking story about the resilience of the human spirit. This edition incorporates new research showing that Wilson was not only a pioneering African-American literary figure but also an entrepreneur in the black women's hair care market fifty years before Madame C.J. Walker's hair care empire made her the country's first woman millionaire.

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" The landmark research and skillful criticism done by Foreman and Pitts should shape discussion of Our Nig for years to come."
-African American Review