 However, the manuscript was not authenticated and properly published until 2002.Some scholars believe that the novel, written by an African-American woman and former slave, was written between 1853 and 1861.It is one of the first and only known novels by a fugitive slave woman, others include the novel "Our Nig" by Harriet Wilson, published in 1859, and "Incidents In The Life of A Slave Girl" by Harriet Jacobs, published in 1861.