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“Whimsical Contrasts”: Love and Marriage in The Minister's Wooing and Our Nig

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Tess Chakkalakal
Publisher: Journals Gateway
The New England Quarterly (2011) 84 (1): 159–171.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1162/TNEQ_a_00069
Published: 01 March 2011
Abstract
Harriet Wilson's Our Nig (1859), which has been taken to be a response to Harriet Beecher Stowe's Uncle Tom's Cabin (1852), has more in common with Stowe's The Minister's Wooing (1859). A reimagining of the lines of influence demonstrates the strengths and weaknesses of Stowe's appreciation of the free black experience in New England.
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