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Beyond Mortal Vision: Harriet Wilson
March 18, 2005
P. Gabrielle Foreman professor, English, Occidental College
Reginald H. Pitts historical researcher, genealogical consultant

P. Gabrielle Foreman, associate professor of English and American studies at Occidental College; and Reginald H. Pitts, an historical researcher and genealogical consultant, offer groundbreaking information about Harriet Wilson from their Introduction to the 2005 Penguin Classics edition of Wilson's 1859 Our Nig; or Sketches from the Life of A Free Black. Wilson was thought to have disappeared from the historical record not long after her novel was published. However, through their scholarly research work, Foreman and Pitts have learned that Wilson lived for almost 40 more years.

History | Literature & Philosophy
American history | Biographies | historical research | lost history | Slavery | African American | Non-Fiction | North American
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