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 by Richard J. Ellis, Harriet E. Wilson

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
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Richard J. Ellis, Harriet E. Wilson

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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

Richard J. Ellis, Harriet E. Wilson

99 pages • first pub 1859 • 32 editions

fiction classics historical challenging emotional reflective slow-paced

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This literary classic tells of a mixed-race girl, Frado, who is abandoned by her white mother after the death of the child's black father. Author Harriet Wilson combined and subverted two literary styles, the sentimental novel and the slave narrat...

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