Our Nig: Or, Sketches From the Life of a Free Black

Author: Harriett Wilson, With an Introduction and Notes by Henry Louis Gates. Jr.
Publisher: Vintage Books, A Division of Random House
Format: Paperback
Condition: Used
Pages: 131
Published: May 1983

Our Nig is a groundbreaking autobiographical novel by Harriet E. Wilson, the first African American woman known to publish a novel in North America. Originally released in 1859, the book delivers a powerful and often overlooked perspective on race, labor, and womanhood in the antebellum North. Through the story of Frado, a free Black girl enduring servitude and racism in a white household, Wilson exposes the harsh realities of "free" Black life outside the South. A cornerstone of African American literature and feminist history.