( N B W ) Who is Harriet Wilson?

Harriet Wilson’s 1859 novel, Our Nig: Sketches from the Life of a Free Black, was the first published novel by an African-American woman and the first novel by a Black writer to be published in the US.  By being the recollection of a free African-American woman’s experiences as a servant for a white family in Massachusetts, Our Nig provided a picture of racism in the antebellum North.