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 / by "Our Nig."

Author:: Wilson, Harriet E., 1825-1900
Additional Titles:: Our Nig and Sketches from the life of a free Black
Published:: Boston : Printed by Geo. C. Rand & Avery, 1859.
Physical Description:: 140 pages ; 19 cm
Additional Creators:: Geo. C. Rand & Avery

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First edition of the originally published novel by an African American woman.
Signatures: 1-11⁶ 12⁴ (12mo).
Eric Gardner noted that nearly all copies of this novel with known provenance originate near the New Hampshire town where Wilson lived at the time of publication. See: Eric Gardner, "'This attempt of their sister': Harriet Wilson's Our Nig from printer to readers," The New England Quarterly v. 66, no. 2 (June 1993): 226-246.
Rare Books copy: Contemporary ownership autograph on front free endpapers of Abbie C.[?] Richards, Augusta, Maine. This copy not noted by Gardner.

Binding Information:

Grayish-brown (C61) bead grain cloth; front and back covers blindstamped with large cartouche with leaf design at head and foot, all within single rule border; gilt lettering and ornament, blind rules on spine; yellow endpapers.

Source of Acquisition:

Rare Books copy: Purchased with funds from the Paterno Libraries Endowment Fund; 2019.
Rare Books copy: Purchased with funds from the Dorothy Foehr Huck Library Acquisition Endowment; 2019.
Rare Books copy: Purchased with funds from the Hastings Libraries Endowment; 2019.
Rare Books copy: Purchased from Type Punch Matrix; 2019.

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Library Company of Philadelphia. Afro-Americana, 1553-1906, 11281

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The Hastings Libraries Endowment
Paterno Libraries Endowment
Dorothy Foehr Huck Libraries Acquisition Endowment

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