Our Nig: Or, Sketches from the Life of a Free Black SIGNED by Henry Lewis Gates

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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 by "Our Nig"
Harriet E. Wilson
Published by Allison & Busby, 1984
Bibliographic Details
Title: Our Nig: Or, Sketches from the Life of a ...
Publisher: Allison & Busby
Publication Date: 1984
Binding: Hardcover
Book and dust jacket are in excellent condition.
SIGNED by Henry Louis Gates
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.