Our Nig
"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...
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"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.
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Format: paperback
ISBN:
9780142437773 (0142437778)
Publish date: December 28th 2004
Publisher: Penguin Classics
Pages no: 176
Edition language: English
Category:
Classics,
Academic,
School,
Literature,
Cultural,
American,
Historical Fiction,
African American,
College,
19th Century,
Race