Our Nig: or Sketches from the Life of a Free Black

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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 childs black father who grows up as an indentured servant to a white family in nineteenth-century Massachusetts.