Harriet Wilsons New England

Author : JerriAnne Boggis
Publisher : University Press of New England
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 278 pages
Book Rating : 4.65/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Harriet Wilson's New England written by JerriAnne Boggis and published by University Press of New England. This book was released on 2007 with total page 278 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume, with a foreword by Henry Louis Gates, Jr., advances efforts to correct the historical record about the racial complexity and richness characteristic of rural New England s past"

Author : Harriet E. Wilson
Publisher : BoD – Books on Demand
ISBN 13 : 3382312891
Total Pages : 146 pages
Book Rating : 4.93/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Our Nig written by Harriet E. Wilson and published by BoD – Books on Demand. This book was released on 2023-04-16 with total page 146 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Reprint of the original, first published in 1859. The publishing house Anatiposi publishes historical books as reprints. Due to their age, these books may have missing pages or inferior quality. Our aim is to preserve these books and make them available to the public so that they do not get lost.

Author : Harriet E. Wilson
Publisher : Vintage
ISBN 13 : 0307477452
Total Pages : 418 pages
Book Rating : 4.53/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Our Nig written by Harriet E. Wilson and published by Vintage. This book was released on 2011-12-20 with total page 418 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: With a New Introduction and Notes by Henry Louis Gates, Jr. and Richard J. Ellis A 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 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. This definitive edition of Our Nig 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 Banner of Light and Spiritual Scientist" 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 Our Nig, in particular when she became a "medium" who communicated with the dead and as an educator in the "Spiritualist" movement after the Civil War.

Author : Harriet E. Wilson
Publisher : Courier Corporation
ISBN 13 : 0486136914
Total Pages : 145 pages
Book Rating : 4.12/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Our Nig written by Harriet E. Wilson and published by Courier Corporation. This book was released on 2012-04-19 with total page 145 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "I sat up most of the night reading and pondering the enormous significance of Harriet Wilson's Our Nig." — Author Alice Walker This seminal autobiographical novel, originally published in 1859, is believed to have been the first by an African-American woman. Harriet Wilson's compelling story describes the life of a mulatto girl who, after the death of her mother, is exploited first by a terrifying Northern family for whom she worked and then by an opportunistic husband. A classic of African-American literature, Our Nig has made an enduring contribution to understanding the lives of free blacks in the nineteenth century. A fascinating combination of slave narrative and sentimental novel, the story traces the hardships and suffering of Frado, who grows up as an indentured servant to a white family in Massachusetts and spends much of her destitute life wandering through New England. A clear and accurate account of race relations and perceptions of race in the antebellum North, Our Nig is essential reading for students of African-American history and culture.

Author : R. J. Ellis
Publisher : Rodopi
ISBN 13 : 9789042011571
Total Pages : 232 pages
Book Rating : 4.72/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Harriet Wilson's Our Nig written by R. J. Ellis and published by Rodopi. This book was released on 2003 with total page 232 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Harriet E. Wilson's Our nig (1859) is a startling tale of the mistreatment of a young African American mulatto woman, Frado, living in New England at a time when slavery, though abolished in the North, still existed in the South. Frado, a Northern free black', yet treated as badly as many Southern slaves of the time, is unforgettably portrayed as experiencing and resisting vicious mistreatment. To achieve this disturbing portrait, Harriet Wilson's book combines several different literary genres - realist novel, autobiography, abolitionist slave narrative and sentimental fiction. R.J. Ellis explores the relationship of Our nig to these genres and, additionally, to laboring class writing (Harriet Wilson was an indentured farm servant). He identifies the way Our nig stands as a double first: the first separately-published novel written in English by an African American female it is also one of the first by a member of the laboring class about the laboring class.

Author : Harriet Wilson
Publisher : CreateSpace
ISBN 13 : 9781494781064
Total Pages : 74 pages
Book Rating : 4.69/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Our Nig, Or Sketches from the Life of a Free Black written by Harriet Wilson and published by CreateSpace. This book was released on 2013-12 with total page 74 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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. The female child of a white female outcast and a black freeman, Harriet Wilson gives a detailed account of what it was like being raised by a white family in the pre-Civil War North of the United States (a household where she was abandoned by her mother at 3). This biography gives a general idea of what a Negro's life in the North was like -- and it was not much different from that life of a slave in the South. The mistress of the house was brutal beyond measure, but many of the other family members were reasonably kind (though not kind of enough to put a stop to the abuse), and it makes one shudder to think of what could have happened in a family who had nothing but Negro-haters in it. Still, Wilson recounts how she got a small measure of schooling, and how she eventually became a Christian (something which the lady of the house -- a Christian herself -- opposed) and her eventual marriage. An upsetting story, it is nevertheless of much more value than "Uncle Tom's Cabin" as it was told from the point of view of the victim and not a sympathetic white.

Author : Harriet Wilson
Publisher : AuthorHouse
ISBN 13 : 1504945255
Total Pages : 242 pages
Book Rating : 4.57/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Sorcerer's Mask written by Harriet Wilson and published by AuthorHouse. This book was released on 2015-07-29 with total page 242 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: After a visit from Vandrone, the master he first encountered in Egypt, Nathan prepares for his third and final journey with his housekeeper and one of his students. The unexpected arrival of old friends at Gladwick Hall leaves him little choice but to invite them to join him in his quest for the sorcerer’s mask. Nathan books passage on the Barracuda, a unique one-man submarine, captained by a crazy German. The voyage looks to be in peril as the small craft battles on, through treacherous weather and heavy seas, to the most dangerous place on earth - the Island of Two Moons. In hot pursuit, on a ghost ship, are two of his sworn enemies. At the helm is a villainous cutthroat - a demon of revenge who has been summoned from a watery grave.

Author : Kate Clifford Larson
Publisher : One World
ISBN 13 : 0307514765
Total Pages : 434 pages
Book Rating : 4.69/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Bound for the Promised Land written by Kate Clifford Larson and published by One World. This book was released on 2009-02-19 with total page 434 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The essential, “richly researched”* biography of Harriet Tubman, revealing a complex woman who “led a remarkable life, one that her race, her sex, and her origins make all the more extraordinary” (*The New York Times Book Review). Harriet Tubman is one of the giants of American history—a fearless visionary who led scores of her fellow slaves to freedom and battled courageously behind enemy lines during the Civil War. Now, in this magnificent biography, historian Kate Clifford Larson gives us a powerful, intimate, meticulously detailed portrait of Tubman and her times. Drawing from a trove of new documents and sources as well as extensive genealogical data, Larson presents Harriet Tubman as a complete human being—brilliant, shrewd, deeply religious, and passionate in her pursuit of freedom. A true American hero, Tubman was also a woman who loved, suffered, and sacrificed. Praise for Bound for the Promised Land “[Bound for the Promised Land] appropriately reads like fiction, for Tubman’s exploits required such intelligence, physical stamina and pure fearlessness that only a very few would have even contemplated the feats that she actually undertook. . . . Larson captures Tubman’s determination and seeming imperviousness to pain and suffering, coupled with an extraordinary selflessness and caring for others.”—The Seattle Times “Essential for those interested in Tubman and her causes . . . Larson does an especially thorough job of . . . uncovering relevant documents, some of them long hidden by history and neglect.”—The Plain Dealer “Larson has captured Harriet Tubman’s clandestine nature . . . reading Ms. Larson made me wonder if Tubman is not, in fact, the greatest spy this country has ever produced.”—The New York Sun

Author : Harriet E. Wilson
Publisher : CreateSpace
ISBN 13 : 9781492311560
Total Pages : 74 pages
Book Rating : 4.61/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Our Nig; Or, Sketches from the Life of a Free Black in a Two-story White House written by Harriet E. Wilson and published by CreateSpace. This book was released on 2013-09 with total page 74 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.

Author : Eve Allegra Raimon
Publisher : Rutgers University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780813534824
Total Pages : 220 pages
Book Rating : 4.28/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The "tragic Mulatta" Revisited written by Eve Allegra Raimon and published by Rutgers University Press. This book was released on 2004 with total page 220 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book focuses on the mixed-race female slave in literature, arguing that this figure became a symbol for explorations of race and nation - both of which were in crisis in the mid-19th century. It suggests that the figure is a way of understanding the volatile and shifting interface of race and national identity in the antebellum period.