{"product_id":"9780307477453","title":"Our Nig: or, Sketches from the Life of a Free Black","description":"\u003ctable\u003e\u003ctbody\u003e\n\u003ctr\u003e\n\u003ctd style=\"\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eAuthor\/Contributor(s):\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003ctd style=\"\"\u003eWilson, Harriet E.; Gates, Henry Louis; Ellis, Richard J.\u003cbr\u003e\n\u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003c\/tr\u003e\n\u003ctr\u003e\n\u003ctd style=\"\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003ctd\u003eVintage\u003cbr\u003e\n\u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003c\/tr\u003e\n\u003ctr\u003e\n\u003ctd style=\"\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eDate:\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003ctd\u003e12\/20\/2011\u003cbr\u003e\n\u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003c\/tr\u003e\n\u003ctr\u003e\n\u003ctd style=\"\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eBinding:\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003ctd style=\"\"\u003ePaperback\u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003c\/tr\u003e\n\u003ctr\u003e\n\u003ctd style=\"\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eCondition:\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003ctd style=\"\"\u003eNEW\u003cbr\u003e\n\u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003c\/tr\u003e\n\u003c\/tbody\u003e\u003c\/table\u003e\u003cb\u003eWith a New Introduction and Notes by Henry Louis Gates, Jr. and Richard J. Ellis\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eA fascinating fusion of two literary models of the nineteenth century, the sentimental novel and the slave narrative, \u003cb\u003eOur Nig\u003c\/b\u003e, apart from its historical significance, is a deeply ironic and highly readable work, tracing the trials and tribulations of Frado, a mulatto girl abandoned by her white mother after the death of the child's black father, who grows up as an indentured servant to a white family in nineteenth-century Massachusetts.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThis definitive edition of \u003cb\u003eOur Nig\u003c\/b\u003e includes a new Introduction by Henry Louis Gates, Jr. and Richard J. Ellis and a set of appendices:  \"Harriet Wilson's Career as a Spiritualist\";  \"Hattie E. Wilson in the \u003ci\u003eBanner of Light\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eSpiritual Scientist\u003c\/i\u003e\" a collection of her extant contributions to these newspapers;  \"Documents from Harriet Wilson's Life in Boston,\" and a compilation of primary source material relating to Wilson's identity.  There is also a new chronology of the life of Harriet Wilson by Richard J. Ellis, as well as an up-to-date Select Bibliography of current scholarship regarding Harriet Wilson. This edition gives the fullest account to date of the life of Harriet Wilson, filling out many critical points regarding her life after writing \u003ci\u003eOur Nig\u003c\/i\u003e, in particular when she became a \"medium\" who communicated with the dead and as an educator in the \"Spiritualist\" movement after the Civil War.","brand":"Vintage","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":43412567851263,"sku":"9780307477453","price":16.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0452\/0886\/2873\/files\/9780307477453_s600x595.jpg?v=1775590244","url":"https:\/\/massivebookshop.com\/products\/9780307477453","provider":"MASSIVE BOOKSHOP","version":"1.0","type":"link"}