Harriet Wilson's New England: Race, Writing, and Region Book

Foreword - Henry Louis Gates, Jr.
Acknowledgments Introduction: Making Space for Harriet E. Wilson NEW HAMSHIRE'S "SHADOWS": CONTEXT AND HISTORY Of Bottles and Books: Reconsidering the Readers of Harriet Wilson's Our Nig - Eric Gardner Harriet Wilson's Mentors: The Walkers of Worcester - Barbara A. White George and Timothy Blanchard: Surviving and Thriving in Nineteenth-Century Milford - Reginald H. Pitts
"As Soon as I Saw My Sable Brother, I Felt More at Home": Sampson Battis, Harriet Wilson, and New Hampshire Town History - David H. Watters New Hampshire Forgot: African Americans in a Community by the Sea - Valerie Cunningham READING "SKETCHES FROM THE LIFE OF A FREE BLACK": GENRE AND GENDER Slavery's Shadows: Narrative Chiaroscuro and Our Nig - Mary Louise Kete Recovered Autobiographies and the Marketplace: Our Nig's Generic Genealogies and Harriet Wilson's Entrepreneurial Enterprise - P. Gabrielle Foreman The Disorderly Girl in Harriet E. Wilson's Our Nig - Lisa E. Green Beyond the Page: Rape and the Failure of Genre - Cassandra Jackson Miss Marsh's Uncommon School Reform - Eve Allegra Raimon Fairy Tales and Our Nig: Feminist Approaches to Teaching Harriet Wilson's Novel - Helen Frink
"A FAITHFUL BAND OF SUPPORTERS AND DEFENDERS": PERSONAL REFLECTIONS Losing Equilibrium: Harriet E. Wilson, Frado, and Me - John Ernest Discovering Harriet Wilson in My Own Backyard - William Allen A Conversation with Tami Sanders - Gloria Henry Not Somewhere Else, But Here - JerriAnne Boggis Contributors Index