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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.
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Our Nig; Or, Sketches from the Life of a Free Black, Harriet E. Wilson
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- Released
- 2021
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- Language
- English
- Authors
- Harriet E. Wilson
- Publisher
- Graphic Arts Books
- Released
- 2021
- Format
- Paperback
- Pages
- 76
- ISBN10
- 1513277375
- ISBN13
- 9781513277370
- Series
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- 3.65 out of 5
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- 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.