Harriet Wilson's "Our Nig"
Subtitle: A Cultural Biography of a "Two-Story" African American Novel (Costerus NS 149) (Costerus NS)
Publisher: Rodopi
Published: October 2003
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 228
ISBN-13: 9789042011571
Subjects: Novels, other prose & writers: 19th century; USA; English
First sentence: Harriet E. Wilson's Our Nig; or, Sketches from the Life of a Free Black in a Two-Story White House, North (1859) is a distressing tale of the vicious mistreatment of a young African American mulatto woman living in New England in the mid-nineteenth century before the Civil War.