Our Nig: or, Sketches from the Life of a Free Black

Authors: Wilson, Harriet E.
Publisher: Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group
BISAC/Subject: FIC019000, FIC041000, FIC049040
ISBN: 9780307739339, Related ISBNs: 0307477452, 0307739333, 0394532104, 0394715586, 1400031206
Classification: Non-Fiction
Number of pages: 416,
Audience: General/trade
Synopsis: With a New Preface, Introduction, and Notes by Henry Louis Gates, Jr.
New Afterword by Barbara White


A fascinating fusion of two literary models 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.
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