The Life Of Harriet E. Wilson: The 1st Black Woman To Publish A Novel

The Life Of Harriet E. Wilson: The 1st Black Woman To Publish A Novel

Source: MarkNH / Getty Harriet E. Wilson, born Harriet Adams around 1825 in Milford, New Hampshire, is widely recognized as the first Black woman to publish a novel in the United States. Yet for more than a century, both her life and work were largely forgotten. In 1859, Wilson published Our Nig; or, Sketches from the Life of a Free Black, in a Two-story White House, North. Showing that Slavery’s Shadows Fall Even There. Printed by George C. Ran…