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
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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.
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Includes afterword originally published as "'Our Nig' and the She-Devil: new information about Harriet Wilson and the 'Bellmont' Family," by Barbara A. White (American literature, 65:1 March 1993).
Includes facsimile of 1859 edition.
Includes bibliographical references (p. lxxxv-xciii).
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