Our Nig
10 best books like Our Nig (Harriet E. Wilson): Clotel: or, The President's Daughter, My Bondage and My Freedom, The Interesting Narrative of the Life of Olaudah Equiano: Written by Himself, Rappaccini's Daughter, No-No Boy, The Marrow of Tradition, Narrative of Sojourner Truth, The Classic Slave Narratives, The Bondwoman's Narrative, The Sport of the Gods
| Author | William Wells Brown |
| ISBN | 0142437727 |
First published in December 1853, Clotel was written amid then unconfirmed rumors that Thomas Jefferson had fathered children with one of his slaves. The story begins with the auction of his mistress, here called Currer, and their two daughters, Clotel and Althesa. The Virginian who buys Clotel falls...
| Author | Frederick Douglass |
| ISBN | 0140439188 |
Ex-slave Frederick Douglass's second autobiography-written after ten years of reflection following his legal emancipation in 1846 and his break with his mentor William Lloyd Garrison-catapulted Douglass into the international spotlight as the foremost spokesman for American blacks, both...
The Interesting Narrative of the Life of Olaudah Equiano: Written by Himself
| Author | Olaudah Equiano |
| ISBN | 0312442033 |
Widely admired for its vivid accounts of the slave trade, Olaudah Equiano's autobiography -- the first slave narrative to attract a significant readership -- reveals many aspects of the eighteenth-century Western world through the experiences of one individual. The second edition reproduces...
| Author | Nathaniel Hawthorne |
| ISBN | 1419143956 |
This scarce antiquarian book is a facsimile reprint of the original. Due to its age, it may contain imperfections such as marks, notations, marginalia and flawed pages. Because we believe this work is culturally important, we have made it available as part of our commitment for protecting, preserving,...
| Author | John Okada |
| ISBN | 0295955252 |
John Okada was born in Seattle, Washington in 1923. He attended the University of Washington and Columbia University. He served in the US Army in World War II, wrote one novel and died of a heart attack at the age of 47. John Okada died in obscurity believing that Asian America had rejected his work.
In...
| Author | Charles W. Chesnutt |
| ISBN | 0140186867 |
Things they didn't teach you in American History
I consider myself fortunate to have gone to segregated schools in the Jim Crow South of the 1950's,thanks to teachers who taught us many of the things that were missing from the approved text books. The text books in the Virginia schools would...
Narrative of Sojourner Truth
One of the most famous and admired African-American women in U.S. history, Sojourner Truth sang, preached, and debated at camp meetings across the country, led by her devotion to the antislavery movement and her ardent pursuit of women's rights. Born into slavery in 1797, Truth fled from bondage some...
The Classic Slave Narratives
| Author | Henry Louis Gates Jr. |
| ISBN | 0451528247 |
The Life of Olaudah Equiano (finished January 2011)
This story at first was indeed a challenge for me. The language and words the author uses made me re-read pages a few times to understand what he was talking about. Of all the stories in this novel, this one was the most difficult as well as long....
| Author | Hannah Crafts |
| ISBN | 0446690295 |
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Through a sequence of fortuitous events detailed in the introduction, noted scholar and author Henry Louis Gates Jr. has discovered what he and others believe may be the first novel written by an African-American woman -- a discovery made even more monumental by the...
| Author | Paul Laurence Dunbar |
| ISBN | 0451527550 |
Lies, secrets, injustice, madness, sadness, gladness, and finally the will to just continue on is the story of Fannie and Berry Hamilton. The couple survived slavery and emancipation to settle for what they thought was a good master and life. To their dismay, they find out differently. In the end for...
| Author | Rebecca Harding Davis |
| ISBN | 0312163746 |
NOTE: Includes a broad selection of historical and cultural documents plus the novella
This definitive edition reprints the text of Rebecca Harding Davis Life in the Iron Mills together with a broad selection of historical and cultural documents that open up the novella to the consideration...
| Author | Frances Ellen Watkins Harper |
| ISBN | 1426460287 |
Being very desirous that one of the race so long distinguished in the cause of freedom for her intellectual worth as Mrs. Harper has had the honor of being should not at this late date in life make a blunder which might detract from her own good name I naturally proposed to await developments before deciding...
| Author | Fanny Fern |
| ISBN | 0813511682 |
When Ruth Hall was originally published in 1855, it caused a sensation. In it, Fanny Fern (Sara Payson Willis Parton) portrays a mid-nineteenth-century woman who realizes the American Dream solely on her own becoming the incarnation of the American individualist-regarded at that time as a role designed...
Ruth Hall: A Domestic Tale of the Present Time
| Author | Fanny Fern |
| ISBN | 0140436405 |
In Ruth Hall, one of the bestselling novels of the 1850s, Fanny Fern drew heavily on her own experiences: the death of her first child and her beloved husband, a bitter estrangement from her family, and her struggle to make a living as a writer. Written as a series of short vignettes and snatches of overheard...
| Author | Hannah Webster Foster |
| ISBN | 0195042395 |
The Coquette tells the much-publicized story of the seduction and death of Elizabeth Whitman, a poet from Hartford, Connecticut.
Written as a series of letters--between the heroine and her friends and lovers--it describes her long, tortuous courtship by two men, neither of whom perfectly...
