Our nig, or, Sketches from the life of a free black
By: Harriet E. Wilson ; edited by P. Gabrielle Foreman and Reginald H. Pitts ; introduction by P. Gabrielle Foreman.
Contributors: Foreman, P. Gabrielle; Pitts, Reginald H.
Series: Penguin classics
Publisher: Penguin Books
Published: 2009
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 109
ISBN-13: 9780143105763
Subjects: African American women domestics -- Fiction; African American women -- Fiction; Free African Americans -- Fiction; Racism -- Fiction; New England -- Fiction
Genres: Fiction
Other titles: Our nig; Sketches from the life of a free Black
Description: Frado, a mixed-race girl abandoned by her white mother after the death of her black father, takes a job as a servant to a lower middle-class white family in the North, only to encounter a world of abuse and abandonment.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references.