Our Nig ; or, sketches from the life of a free Blank, in a two-story white house, north : showing that slavery's shadows fall even there / by "Our Nig" ;[Harriet E. Wilson, edited with a new introduction by Henry Louis Gates, Jr. and Richard J. Ellis.]

Title:

Our Nig ; or, sketches from the life of a free Blank, in a two-story white house, north : showing that slavery's shadows fall even there / by "Our Nig" ;[Harriet E. Wilson, edited with a new introduction by Henry Louis Gates, Jr. and Richard J. Ellis.]

Author:

Wilson, Hariet, 1825-1900.

Call Number:

813 W743g

Publication Information:

New York, N.Y. : Vintage Books, 2011.

Physical Description:

xxi, 140, cxcii p. : map ; facsimile ; 21 cm.

Description:

Frado, a mixed-race girl abandoned by her white mouther after the death of her black father, finds work as a servant to a lower middle class white family in New England, only to encounter abuse and abandonment.

Language:

English.

Genre:

Autobiographical fiction, American. Politican fiction, American.

Subjects:

African American women household employees Fiction. , Free African Americans Fiction. , African American women Fiction. , Racism Fiction.

Locations:

New England Fiction.

Credit Line:

Gift of Random House Press; January 17, 2004;