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Our Nig: or, Sketches from the Life of a Free Black (Penguin Classics) Book
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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.
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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.
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.
- 0142437778
- 9780142437773
- Harriet L. Wilson
- 29 March 2007
- Penguin Classics
- Paperback (Book)
- 176
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