Our Nig: Or, Sketches from the Life of a Free Black Paperback - 2004
by Harriet E. Wilson
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.
Wilson combined and subverted two literary styles, the sentimental novel and the slave narrative, in writing Our Nig, which was drawn from her real-life experience. Her sardonic treatment of abolitionists in the novel has long perplexed scholars and readers; Foreman and Pitts explain this puzzle in their Introduction and recount Wilson's life and career after the 1859 publication of Our Nig.
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- Title Our Nig: Or, Sketches from the Life of a Free Black
- Author Harriet E. Wilson
- Binding Paperback
- Edition [ Edition: Repri
- Pages 103
- Volumes 1
- Language ENG
- Publisher Penguin Group
- Date December 28, 2004
- ISBN 9780142437773 / 0142437778
- Weight 0.29 lbs (0.13 kg)
- Dimensions 7.74 x 5.78 x 0.43 in (19.66 x 14.68 x 1.09 cm)
- Library of Congress subjects New England, Political fiction
- Library of Congress Catalog Number 2004276661
- Dewey Decimal Code FIC
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