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Harriet E. Wilson

Author of OUR NIG; or Sketches from the Life of a Free Black, in a two-story white house, north.

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c. 1828
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c. 1863
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Milford, New Hampshire, USA (birth)
Boston, Massachusetts, USA (death)
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domestic servant
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Harriet E. Wilson is traditionally considered the first female African-American novelist as well as the first African American of any gender to publish a novel on the North American continent. Her novel Our Nig was published in 1859 and rediscovered in 1982.
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