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 On
November 5, 2006, after 4 years of raising public awareness the
Harriet E. Wilson full-size bronze memorial statue was unveiled
in Milford, New Hampshire making it the first statute in the
state’s history to honor a person of color.
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 In 1859, Harriet Wilson, a mulatto woman from New Hampshire, published a novel with the stated hope of earning sufficient money simply to survive. Instead, her novel Our Nig; or Sketches From the Life of A Free Black, became a powerful and controversial narrative that continues to touch and unsettle readers around the world.
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 The Harriet Wilson Project presents the Black Heritage Tour
of Historic Milford. NH.
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Harriet Wilson’s New England: Race, Writing, and Region. New
release by the University Press of New England, July 2007.
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