or, Sketches from the Life of a Free Black
by
Harriet E. Wilson
Language: English
Release Date: December 20, 2011
With a New Preface, Introduction, and Notes by Henry Louis Gates, Jr.
New Afterword by Barbara White
A fascinating fusion of two literary models of the nineteenth century, the sentimental novel and the slave narrative, Our Nig, apart from its historical significance, is a deeply ironic and...