Andrews, William L. The novelization of voice in early African American narrative

Bassard, K. C. Gender and genre: black women's autobiography and the ideology of literacy

Breau, Elizabeth. Identifying Satire in Our Nig.Boyle, Elizabeth

 ‘Twisting herself into all shapes’: blackface minstrelsy and comic performance in Harriet Wilson’s Our Nig

Davis, Cynthia J. Speaking the Body's Pain: Harriet Wilson's Our Nig

Doriani, Beth Maclay. Black Womanhood in Nineteenth-Century America: Subversion and Self-Construction in Two Women's Autobiographies

Dowling, David. Our Nig; or, Sketches from the Life of a Free Black (Novel)

Ernest, John. Economies of Identity: Harriet E. Wilson's Our Nig  

Foreman, P. Gabrielle, The Spoken and The Silenced in Incidents in The Life of a Slave Girl and our Nig

Fox-Genovese, Elizabeth. Between individualism and fragmentation: American culture and the new literary studies of race and gender

Gardner, Eric. "This Attempt of Their Sister": Harriet Wilson's Our Nig from Printer to Readers

Leveen, Lois. Dwelling in the House of Oppression: The Spatial, Racial, and Textual Dynamics of Harriet Wilson's Our Nig

Lovell, Thomas E. By Dint of Labor and Economy: Harriet Jacobs, Harriet Wilson, and the Salutary View of Wage Labor

Mitchell, Angelyn. Her Side of History:  A Feminist Analysis of Two Nineteenth-Century Antebellum Novels - Williams Wells Brown's Clotel and Harriet E. Wilson's Our Nig . 

Schroeder, Elizabeth R.  Anger, sentimentality, and the female slave experience : Harriet Jacobs, Harriet E. Wilson, Hannah Crafts, and Mary Prince.

Stern, Julia. Excavating Genre in Our Nig.

West, Elizabeth J. Reworking the Conversion Narrative: Race and Christianity in Our Nig

White, Barbara A. "Our Nig" and the She-Devil: New Information about Harriet Wilson and the "Bellmont" Family.

1. African American Women Writers of the 19th Century. Schomburg. 
   
2. ​The Gilder Lehrman Center for the Study of Slavery, Resistance, and Abolition
   
3. ​Brown University. Center for the Study of Slavery & Justice
   
4. Harvard. W.E.B. Du Bois Research Institute
   
5. The Antislavery Literature Project
   

1.The Center For New England Culture at U.N.H 

2. African American Registry 

3. Voices from The Gap

4.Perspectives in American Literature

5. Questions to help facilitate discussion of Our Nig 

African American History Resources 

1. New Hampshire Historical Society
   
2. Milford Historical Society
   
3. Portsmouth Black Heritage Trail
4. Boston, African American National Historic Sites
   
5. Boston, Museum of African American History
   
6. The Rhode Island Black Heritage Society
   
7. Portland Freedom Trail
   

Literary Criticism 

Links & Resources

Biographies and Resources for Teaching Wilson's Novel

The Harriet Wilson Project

People, Places & Trails