num_pages: 103
description: 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.
language: English
title: Our Nig
titlecomplete: Our Nig
genres: Historical, Literature, American, School, Classics, African American, 19th Century, Historical Fiction, Fiction, Race
ratings_count: 2939
publisher: Penguin Classics