Our Nig: Or, Sketches from the Life of a Free Black (Revised)

Title: Our Nig: Or, Sketches from the Life of a Free Black (Revised) Author: Wilson, Harriet E ISBN: 9781400031207 Publisher: Vintage Published: 2002 Binding: Quality Language: English Condition: Used: Very Good Clean, unmarked copy with some edge wear. Good binding. Dust jacket included if issued with one. We ship in recyclable American-made mailers. 100% money-back guarantee on all orders. Fiction 1393446 Publisher Description: With a New Preface, Introduction, and Notes by Henry Louis Gates, Jr.New Afterword by Barbara White A fascinating fusion of two literary models 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-