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  • Our Nig

    by Harriet E. Wilson ...
    The novel tells the story of Frado, a young mixed-race girl who is abandoned by her white mother and left to live with the Bellmonts, a white family in a small New England town. Frado experiences hardship and abuse while living with the Bellmonts, and the novel explores themes of racism, classism, and the struggles faced by free Black individuals in the antebellum United States.The novel is ... Read more

    $1.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Our Nig

    by Harriet E. Wilson ...
    Books for All Kinds of Readers. ReadHowYouWant offers the widest selection of on-demand accessible format editions on the market today. Our 7 different sizes of EasyRead™ are optimized by increasing the font size and spacing between the words and the letters. We partner with leading publishers around the globe. Our goal is to have accessible editions simultaneously released with publishers' new ... Read more

    $6.99 CAD

  • Our Nig

    or, Sketches from the Life of a Free Black

    by Harriet E. Wilson, P. Gabrielle Foreman, Reginald Pitts ...
    The 1859 novel tracing the life of a mulatto foundling abused by a white family in 19th century New England. ... Read more

    Was $12.99 CAD Now $9.99 CAD

  • Our Nig

    by Harriet E. Wilson ...
    Our Nig is an autobiographical novel by Harriet E. Wilson, her only published work. It was written not for pleasure, but to financially support the lives of the author and her sick child. It was long considered to be the first novel published by an African-American woman in the United States, but recent research has put that title into question.Frado, born to a white mother and black father, is ... Read more

    $2.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Our Nig; Or, Sketches from the Life of a Free Black

    by Harriet E. Wilson ...
    Harriet Wilson (1825-1900) is the first female African American to publish a novel in North America. Her first and only work, "Our Nig: Sketches From the Life From a Free Black" was published in 1859 and was considered lost until 1982 when rediscovered by the scholar Henry Louis Gates Jr. The novel is largely autobiographical, tracking the life of a free black women in the Antebellum North. At the ... Read more

    $3.99 CAD

  • The Eyes of Beelzebub

    by Harriet Wilson ...
    Nathan Gladwick sets off on an incredible journey to seek his fame and fortune, accompanied by Rose, and five children, who all become embroiled in his dangerous adventure. His arch enemy, Dr Kazzan pursues him relentlessly, using all his evil powers to discover what Nathans father had found so terrifying. The glory that Nathan seeks is life changing and very different from what he expected. Will ... Read more

    $6.99 CAD

  • A Life in Chains

    Enriched edition. The Juneteenth Edition: Novels, Memoirs, Interviews, Testimonies, Studies, Official Records on Slavery and Abolitionism

    by Mark Twain, Harriet Beecher Stowe, Lydia Maria Child, James Weldon Johnson, William Wells Brown, Frederick Douglass, Booker T. Washington, Harriet E. Wilson, Charles W. Chesnutt, Harriet Jacobs, Gideon Ashbourne2 ...
    A Life in Chains brings together a compelling collection of narratives, essays, and stories that converge on the harrowing realities of slavery and the pursuit of freedom in 19th-century America. This anthology navigates a spectrum of literary styles, from reflective memoirs to incisive social commentaries, providing a multifaceted panorama of the African American experience under the shadow of ... Read more

    Was $2.99 CAD Now $1.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • 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 Harriet E. Wilson ...
    Showing That Slavery's Shadows Fall Even TherePrefaceIN offering to the public the following pages, the writer confesses her inability to minister to the refined and cultivated, the pleasure supplied by abler pens. It is not for such these crude narrations appear. Deserted by kindred, disabled by failing health, I am forced to some experiment which shall aid me in maintaining myself and child ... Read more

    $6.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Our Nig; Or, Sketches from the Life of a Free Black. Illustrated

    by Harriet E. Wilson ...
    Harriet E. Wilson was an African-American novelist. She was the first African American to publish a novel on the North American continent.She wrote one novel. Wilson later was associated with the Spiritualist church, was paid on the public lecture circuit for her lectures about her life, and worked as a housekeeper in a boarding house. ... Read more

    $1.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Our Nig: or, Sketches from the Life of a Free Black

    by Harriet E. Wilson ...
    Harriet E. Wilson is the first female African American to publish a novel in North America. Her first and only work, “Our Nig: Sketches from the Life of a Free Black” was first published in 1859. Considered lost until 1982 when it was rediscovered by scholar Henry Louis Gates Jr., the novel is largely autobiographical, tracking the life of a free black women in the Antebellum North. At the age of ... Read more

    $8.99 CAD

  • Our Nig

    by Harriet E. Wilson ...
    Another classic converted by eBooksLib.com. IN offering to the public the following pages, the writer confesses her inability to minister to the refined and culti- vated, the pleasure supplied by abler pens. It is not for such these crude narrations appear. Deserted by kindred, disabled by failing health, I am forced to some experiment which shall aid me in maintaining myself and child with- out ... Read more

    $4.11 CAD

  • Our Nig

    or, Sketches from the Life of a Free Black

    by Harriet E. Wilson ...
    With a New Preface, Introduction, and Notes by Henry Louis Gates, Jr.New Afterword by Barbara WhiteA 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 highly readable work, tracing the trials and tribulations of Frado, a mulatto girl abandoned by her white ... Read more

    Was $13.99 CAD Now $7.99 CAD