Our Nig; or, Sketches from the Life of a Free Black, In A Two-Story White House, North. Showing That Slavery's Shadows Fall Even There.

244 Pages·1983·34.382 MB·English

by  Harriet E. Wilson, Henry Louis Gates Jr.

or. Sketches from the
Life of a Free Black
by Harriet E.Wilson
"I sat up most of the night reading and pondering the enormous
significance of Harriet Wilsons novel Our Nig. It is as if wed just
discovered Phyllis Wheatley—or Langston Hughes....She
represents a similar vastness of heretofore unexamined experience,
a whole new layer of time and existence in American life
and literature."—Alice Walker
With an Introduction and Notes byHenry Louis Gates,
Jr.

OUR
NIG

OUR
NIG;
^——
or,
Sketchesfrom the
Life ofa Free Black,
In A Two-Story White House, North.
SHOWING THAT SLAVERY'S SHADOWS
FALL EVEN THERE.
"OUR
by NIG."
VINTAGE BOOKS
A Division of Random House • NewYork
This second edition of
OurNig
is dedicated to
Pauline Augusta Coleman Gates
and
Henry Louis Gates, Sr.
VINTAGE BOOKS EDITION. May 1983
©
Introduction and Notes Copyright 1983 by Henry Louis Gates, Jr.
All rights reserved under International and Pan-American Copyright
Conventions. Published in the United States by Random House, Inc.,
New York, and simultaneously in Canada by Random House of i
Canada Limited, Toronto.
Hardcover edition simultaneously published by Random House, Inc.
LibraryofCongressCatalogingin Publication Data
Wilson, H. E. (Harriet E.) iSoS^a. 1870.
,
Our nig: or, sketches from the lifeof a free black.
in a two-story white house, North.
Bibliography: p.
I. Gates. Henry Louis. II. Title. III. Title:
Sketches from the life ofa free black.
PS3334W39O9 1983 8i3'.3 82-49197
ISBN 0^394-71558-6 (pbk.)
Manufactured in the United States of .America
579086
In Memory
of
MargueriteElizabeth Howard Coleman,
and
GertrudeHelen Redman Gates
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