Our Nig, or, Sketches from the life of a free Black, in a two-story white house, North
Subtitle: showing that slavery's shadows fall even there
By: by "Our Nig" ; [with a new preface, introd., and notes by Henry Louis Gates.
Contributors: Gates, Henry Louis.; White, Barbara Anne.
Edition: Vintage books ed. ; 3rd ed.
Publisher: Vintage Books
Published: 2002
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 140
Subjects: African American women -- United States -- Fiction; Freedmen -- United States -- Fiction
Genres: Fiction.
Other titles: Our Nig.; Sketches from the life of a free Black.
Description: "A fusion of two literary modes 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 child's black father, who grows up as an indentured servant to a white family in nineteenth-century Massachusetts."--BOOK JACKET.
Notes: Includes afterword originally published as "'Our Nig' and the She-Devil: new information about Harriet Wilson and the 'Bellmont' Family," by Barbara A. White (American literature, 65:1 March 1993).

Includes facsimile of 1859 edition.

Includes bibliographical references (p. lxxxv-xciii).