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Our Nig, or, Sketches from the life of a free Black / edited with an introduction and notes by P. Gabrielle Foreman and Reginald H. Pitts.
- Title
- Our Nig, or, Sketches from the life of a free Black / edited with an introduction and notes by P. Gabrielle Foreman and Reginald H. Pitts.
- Author
- Wilson, Harriet E., 1825-1900.
- Publication
- New York, N.Y. : Penguin Books, 2005.
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- Description
- liii, 103 p.; 20 cm.
- Summary
- This literary classic tells of a mixed-race girl, Frado, who is abandoned by her white mother after the death of the child's black father. Author Harriet Wilson combined and subverted two literary styles, the sentimental novel and the slave narrative, in writing Our Nig.
- Series Statement
- Penguin classics
- Uniform Title
- Penguin classics.
- Alternative Title
- Our nig
- Sketches from the life of a free Black
- Subject
- Genre/Form
- Autobiographical fiction.
- Fiction.
- Political fiction.
- Note
- Originally published: Boston : G.C. Rand & Avery, 1859.
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references (p. li-liii., [81]-103).
- Processing Action (note)
- committed to retain
- Contents
- Chronology I: Harriet E. "Hattie" Wilson, 1825-1900 -- Chronology II: The Hayward and Hutchinson families of Milford, New Hampshire -- Introduction -- Our Nig; or, Sketches from the life of a free black.
- ISBN
- 0142437778 (pbk.) :
- OCLC
- 57456728
- Owning Institutions
- Harvard Library