OUR NIG - or Sketches from the Life of a Free Black
by Wilson, Harriet E. (introduction by Henry Louis Gates Jr)
- Used
- very good
- Paperback
- first
- Condition
- Very Good
- ISBN 10
- 0394532104
- ISBN 13
- 9780394532103
- Seller
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Burlington, Ontario, Canada
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Synopsis
For the 150th anniversary of its first publication, a new edition of the pioneering African-American classic, reflecting groundbreaking discoveries about its author's life 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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- Bookseller
- W. Fraser Sandercombe (CA)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 222465
- Title
- OUR NIG - or Sketches from the Life of a Free Black
- Author
- Wilson, Harriet E. (introduction by Henry Louis Gates Jr)
- Format/Binding
- Paperback
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good
- Edition
- First Printing - First Thus
- ISBN 10
- 0394532104
- ISBN 13
- 9780394532103
- Publisher
- Random House
- Place of Publication
- New York
- Date Published
- 1983
- Size
- 8vo
- Keywords
- black studies; african american; negro; slavery; racism; racist; prejudice; bigot; bigotry; freedom; civil rights; black lives matter; ghetto;
- Bookseller catalogs
- Literature;
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