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Our Nig: or, Sketches from the Life of a Free Black (Penguin Classics)

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Binding: Paperback
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ISBN: 9780143105763
Publisher: Penguin Books
Language: English
Page Count: 109
Publication Date: 12/29/2009
Size: 7.75" l x 5.13" w x 0.50"
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First published in 1859, Our Nig is an autobiographical narrative that stands as one of the most important accounts of the life of a black woman in the antebellum North. 

In the story of Frado, a spirited black girl who is abused and overworked as the indentured servant to a New England family, Harriet E. Wilson tells a heartbreaking story about the resilience of the human spirit. This edition incorporates new research showing that Wilson was not only a pioneering African-American literary figure but also an entrepreneur in the black women's hair care market fifty years before Madame C. J. Walker's hair care empire made her the country's first woman millionaire.

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