Our nig, or, Sketches from the life of a free black
by Harriet E. Wilson
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Frado, a mixed-race girl abandoned by her white mother after the death of her black father, takes a job as a servant to a lower middle-class white family in the North, only to encounter a world of abuse and abandonment.
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Fiction, African American women, Racism, Free African Americans, African American women household employees, African American women domestics, Fiction, african american, historical, Fiction, political, African americans, fiction, New england, fiction, Fiction, african american & black, historical, African American authors, African American women in fiction, Freedmen, African American women household employees in fiction, Racism in fiction, Free African Americans in fiction, New England in fiction, Freedmen in fiction, Slavery, Race relations, African Americans, Women domestics, Freed personsShowing 7 featured editions. View all 42 editions?
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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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