Harriet E Wilson (Q491660)

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HC-PER-34801
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Harriet E Wilson
HC-PER-34801
  • HC-PER-34801

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Free before 13th Amendment. In 1859 she published Our Nig, a loosely- autobiographical novel discussing racism in the North and the first novel published by an African American in the United States. Henry Louis Gates, Jr. rediscovered the work in 1983.