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This happens to be the first novel written by a an African American woman. The author, Harriet Wilson, also happens to have been born in the town of Milford, NH (where I currently live!). It was actually published in 1859, but was largely forgotten until Henry Louis Gates rediscovered it in the early 1980s. It seems that Milford, NH was the site of several abolitionist conventions in the 19th century and received many famous visitors including the likes of Frederick Douglass. Milford, NH was a p
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