{"product_id":"our-nig-or-sketches-from-the-life-of-a-free-black-paperback-1","title":"Our Nig: Or, Sketches from the Life of a Free Black - Paperback","description":"\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eHarriet E. Wilson\u003c\/b\u003e (Author), \u003cb\u003eHenry Louis Gates\u003c\/b\u003e (Editor), \u003cb\u003eRichard J. Ellis\u003c\/b\u003e (Editor)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eWith a New Introduction and Notes by Henry Louis Gates, Jr. and Richard J. Ellis\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eA fascinating fusion of two literary models of the nineteenth century, the sentimental novel and the slave narrative, \u003cb\u003eOur Nig\u003c\/b\u003e, apart from its historical significance, is a deeply ironic and highly readable work, tracing the trials and tribulations of Frado, a mulatto girl abandoned by her white mother after the death of the child's black father, who grows up as an indentured servant to a white family in nineteenth-century Massachusetts. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eThis definitive edition of \u003cb\u003eOur Nig\u003c\/b\u003e includes a new Introduction by Henry Louis Gates, Jr. and Richard J. Ellis and a set of appendices: \"Harriet Wilson's Career as a Spiritualist\"; \"Hattie E. Wilson in the \u003ci\u003eBanner of Light\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eSpiritual Scientist\u003c\/i\u003e\" a collection of her extant contributions to these newspapers; \"Documents from Harriet Wilson's Life in Boston,\" and a compilation of primary source material relating to Wilson's identity. There is also a new chronology of the life of Harriet Wilson by Richard J. Ellis, as well as an up-to-date Select Bibliography of current scholarship regarding Harriet Wilson. This edition gives the fullest account to date of the life of Harriet Wilson, filling out many critical points regarding her life after writing \u003ci\u003eOur Nig\u003c\/i\u003e, in particular when she became a \"medium\" who communicated with the dead and as an educator in the \"Spiritualist\" movement after the Civil War.\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eHarriet E. Wilson \u003c\/b\u003e(1825-1900) was born in New Hampshire, where she worked from a young age as a servant to an abusive family.\u003cb\u003e \u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eHenry Louis Gates, Jr.,  is the Alphonse Fletcher University Professor and the Director of the W. E. B. Du Bois Institute for African and African American Research at Harvard University. The author of numerous books, including the widely acclaimed memoir \u003ci\u003eColored People\u003c\/i\u003e, Professor Gates has also edited several anthologies and is coeditor with Kwame Anthony Appiah of \u003ci\u003eEncarta Africana\u003c\/i\u003e, an encyclopedia of the African Diaspora. An influential cultural critic, he is a frequent contributor to \u003ci\u003eThe New Yorker\u003c\/i\u003e and other publications and is the recipient of many honors, including a MacArthur Foundation Fellowship and the National Humanities Medal. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cb\u003eRichard J. Ellis\u003c\/b\u003e is Professor and Chair of the American and Canadian Studies Department at the University of Birmingham in the United Kingdom. He has published widely on American studies topics. His two most recent monographs are \u003ci\u003eLiar! Liar!--Jack Kerouac Novelist\u003c\/i\u003e (1999) and \u003ci\u003eHarriet Wilson's Our Nig: A Cultural Biography\u003c\/i\u003e (2003). He is the editor of \u003ci\u003eComparative American Studies: An International Journal\u003c\/i\u003e and currently serves on the ASA's International Committee. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n        \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 416\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0.9 x 7.9 x 5.1 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e December 20, 2011\u003c\/div\u003e\n            ","brand":"Books by splitShops","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51754187260192,"sku":"9780307477453","price":16.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0974\/9764\/5344\/files\/38351cc64b7f3c1dee21f04c88fd6b2d.webp?v=1780035328","url":"https:\/\/ebocreations.com\/products\/our-nig-or-sketches-from-the-life-of-a-free-black-paperback-1","provider":"The E-Book Oasis LLC","version":"1.0","type":"link"}