Laila Lalami

The town of Mitford, New Hampshire is planning to erect a memorial for Harriet E. Wilson, author of Our Nig, a scathing memoir of her life as a “free” black woman in the mid-1800s (this is the same Wilson whose book was “rediscovered” by Henry Louis Gates in the 1970s.)

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