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September 5, 2021
Our Nig
In 1983, scholar Henry Louis Gates published a reprint of Our Nig, reportedly the first novel published in the United States by an African American woman in 1859.
Also on this day
Absalom Jones
Absalom Jones on this day in 1904 was ordained a priest in the Episcopal Church.
Leopold Sedar Senghor
Leopold Sedar Senghor, poet, co-father of ‘Negritude’, and politician, was elected President of Senegal on this day in 1960.
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