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
by Harriet E. Wilson · 1984
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"A fusion of two literary modes of the nineteenth century, the sentimental novel and the slave narrative, Our Nig, apart from its historical significance, is a deeply ironic and highly readable work, tracing the trials and tribulations of Frado, a mulatto girl abandoned by her white mother after the death of the child's black father, who grows up as an indentured servant to a white family in nineteenth-century Massachusetts."--BOOK JACKET.
FictionAfrican American womenRacismFree African AmericansAfrican American women household employeesAfrican American women domesticsFiction, african american, historicalFiction, politicalAfrican americans, fictionNew england, fictionFiction, african american & black, historicalAfrican American authors