Abstract
N early September 1859, the Boston firm of George C. Rand and Avery printed the anonymous work Our Nig; or Sketches from the Life of Free Black.' Prior to its recovery by Henry Louis Gates, Jr., which led to the publication of facsimile edition in 1983, Harriet Wilson's novel collected dust in libraries, bookshops, and antique stores.2 Gates, who was himself introduced to the book through an antiquarian bookseller in 1981, describes Our Nig as a book whose central theme is white racism in the North as experienced by free black indentured servant in antebellum days and notes that, as such, it revises the typology of nineteenth-century American women's novels described by Nina Baym.3 Gates and several other critics have observed that Our Nig may be an autobiography--or at least an autobiographical
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