Read Our Nig; or, Sketches from the life of a free black in a two-story white house, North . By: Harriet E. Wilson / is an autobiographical NOVEL / - Harriet E. Wilson | PDF Online

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.The daughter of Joshua Green, an African-American hooper of barrels, and Margaret Ann (or Adams) Smith, a washerwoman of Irish ancestry. Her father died when she