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- paperback· 120 pp9781702015868
First published 1859
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
"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.