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Our Nig, Or, Sketches from the Life of a Free Black, in a Two-Story White House, North Showing That Slavery's Shadows Fall Even There - Softcover
"Our Nig" is the tale of a mixed-race girl, Frado, abandoned by her white mother after the death of the child's black father. Frado becomes the servant of the Bellmonts, a lower-middle-class white family in the free North, while slavery is still legal in the South, and suffers numerous abuses in their household. Frado's story is a tragic one; having left the Bellmonts, she eventually marries a black fugitive slave, who later abandons her.
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"I sat up most of the night reading and pondering the enormous significance of Harriet Wilson's Our Nig." —Alice Walker
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The 1859 novel tracing the life of a mulatto foundling abused by a white family in 19th century New England.
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- PublisherHardpress Publishing
- Publication date2010
- ISBN 10 1407634399
- ISBN 13 9781407634395
- BindingPaperback
- Number of pages120
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