Harriet Wilson's New England: race, writing, and region

pt. 1. New Hampshire'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

pt. 2. 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

pt. 3. "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.